Article ID: CBB001550844

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

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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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Authors & Contributors
Sarah F. Rose
Jane Freebody
Jewusiak, Jacob
Piper, Alana J.
Nagy, Victoria M.
Mark Paterson
Concepts
Labor and laborers
Disease and diseases
Aging
Public health
Medicine and society
Health
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Birmingham (England)
Tropics
Bahia (Brazil)
Manchuria
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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