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English Poor Law Institutional Care for Older People: Identifying the `Aged and Infirm' and the `Sick' in Birmingham Workhouse, 1852--1912 (2014)

Ritch, Alistair (Author)

Social History of Medicine
Volume: 27, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 64-85

DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkt071

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Aging Labor and laborers Workhouses Disease and diseases 19th century 20th century, early Birmingham (England)

How prominent a role the workhouse played in the lives of older paupers in the nineteenth century is a matter of debate. This article addresses this issue, as well as the difficulty in determining who was classified as old and identifying them within Birmingham workhouse. It argues that Birmingham's institutionalisation rate of older paupers was more akin to London than an average provincial union. Birmingham was one of the few workhouses which provided dedicated facilities for those with disability, labelled `bedridden wards'. Examination of the inmates within these wards aids our understanding of the development of poor law institutions as providers of care for older people with chronic illness in the twentieth century.

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