NEW POOR-LAW ORDER AND UNION SURGEONS.

The casual poor and the city of London Poor Law Union, 1837-1869.

. The City of London Poor Law Union in the early to mid-Victorian period was the richest and least populated of all the metropolitan Poor Law districts. A wide range of parochial, livery, and other charities within the City not only attracted vast numbers of applicants for assistance, but influenced the quality and nature of the care given by the local union. This not only meant that pr...

‘‘We Might be Trusted’’: Female Poor Law Guardians and the Development of the New Poor Law: The Case

This article uses the only surviving working diary of an English female Poor Law guardian in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore two interrelated bodies of historiography. First, it engages with an historiography of the New Poor Law which has by and large seen the late nineteenth century as a period of atrophication. Second, it engages with a literature on female Poor L...

A 'Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy'? Poor Law, Lunacy Law and Scotland's parochial asylums.

Scotland's parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of 'madness'. They were institutions...

International Union of Criminal Law

The old poor law and medicine.

THIS ARTICLE is a survey of the treatment of the sick poor in the counties of Berkshire, Essex, and Oxfordshire from c. 1720 to 1834 based on parish records. Its general argument is that the sick poor received sympathetic and humane consideration bearing in mind contemporary medical knowledge and the limited facilities available. General medical aid is first considered broken limbs, midwifery, ...