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Died In The Workhouse
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Carole | Report | 21 Apr 2009 22:24 |
My 3xGGF died in the workhouse. This came as a shock as he had married children and a wife. I wondered why none of them looked after him. He died of chronic bronchitis. I wondered if the workhouse had some sort of hospital where poor people could go if their families could not afford a doctor? Other than that I just wondered why he ended up in the workhouse? |
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Joy | Report | 21 Apr 2009 22:28 |
A relative of mine died in a workhouse, in the early 1900s. However, it was in an infirmary in the workhouse. There was no NHS in those days. |
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CherryBlossom | Report | 21 Apr 2009 22:38 |
I had a shock recently when I got the death certificate of my 2x great grandmother. She died in the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum (and yeah, it probably does run in the family!!) but was late of the Kensington Workhouse Infirmary. Like your family she had married children and a husband but as she had total paralysis (according to the death certificate) I'm assuming she'd had a stroke and the family couldn't care for her so was 'hospitalised'. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 21 Apr 2009 22:43 |
Workhouses had their own Infirmary's and the sick that needed more medical treatment than they could get a t home would go into the hospital for medical care. In those days it cost to have the local doctor visit and the ordinary folk just couldn't afford what was private medical care. So you needn't have been a Workhouse inmate to be in the Hospital and indeed people did eventually object to the Workhouse Infirmary being on certs for Births and deaths because of the stigma it gave that implied they had been in the Workhouse,So ,it was agreed that the postal address would be given as the place of birth or death to overcome that. When the National Health Service started in the 1940,s lots of these Hospital became the local General Hospital |
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Nightowl51 | Report | 22 Apr 2009 01:25 |
My great great grandmother had problems with her pregnancies between 1884 and 1890 and because of her situation had to enter the Workhouse books to be transferred to the workhouse infirmary. |
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Carole | Report | 22 Apr 2009 07:39 |
Thankyou all for your views on the subject. |
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CherryBlossom | Report | 22 Apr 2009 08:56 |
Why didn't they take her in? |
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TinaTheCheshirePussyCat | Report | 22 Apr 2009 10:38 |
Even now the "workhouse" stigma has not entirely disappeared. My own mother died a few years ago. She was born in 1916. My father had a good job and when he died, my mother was left well provided for. Nevertheless, she worried constantly about money, joking (or so we thought) that if she spent too much she would end up in the workhouse. |
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Bren from Oldham | Report | 22 Apr 2009 11:22 |
It was quite common for people to be admitted to the infimary part of the workhouse when they were seriously ill. My Gt grandfathers death certificate shows his as dying in the workhouse,but when I checked the records he had only been admitted that morning |