Huddersfield workhouse scandal
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Huddersfield workhouse scandal
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The Huddersfield workhouse scandal concerned the conditions in the workhouse at Huddersfield, England in 1848. The problems included overcrowding, disease, food, and sanitation, among others. A report, for instance, described the workhouse as "wholly unfitted for residence for the many scores that are continually crowded into it, unless it be that desire to engender endemic and fatal disease. And this Huddersfield workhouse is by far the best in the whole union." On investigation, the conditions
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UK 1848 poor law scandal
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2024-01-13T03:59:12Z
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