This meant that any able-bodied unemployed people would be supported only if they entered a workhouse, which was a deliberately harsh environment to live.
What year was the New Poor Law introduced?
1834
Many Victorians thought there were two types of poor people. What were they?
'Deserving' and 'Undeserving'!
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