Andover workhouse scandal
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Andover workhouse scandal
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The Andover workhouse scandal of the mid-1840s exposed serious defects in the administration of the English 'New Poor Law'. It led to significant changes in its central supervision and to increased parliamentary scrutiny. The scandal began with the revelation in August 1845 that inmates of the workhouse in Andover, Hampshire, England were driven by hunger to eat the marrow and gristle from bones which they were to crush to make fertilizer. The inmates' rations set by the local Poor Law guardians
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UK 1845 poor law scandal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover_workhouse_scandal
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2024-02-08T02:41:48Z
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