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单词 Indoor relief
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济贫院 Workhouse

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1780年在英国柴郡楠特威奇的一间济贫院
Sampson Kempthorne's cruciform design for a workhouse accommodating 300 paupers

济贫院workhouse)又称救济院、救贫院、贫民院、济贫工厂,是为穷人提供工作和弱者提供生计的机构,起源于《伊丽莎白济贫法》(Elizabethan Poor Law)。

济贫院在英国和爱尔兰得到高度发展,在其他欧洲国家也有小规模的济贫院,如荷兰在全国范围只有三间大的济贫院,而1777年单英国柴郡就有31间。

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Workhouse 济贫院

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Former workhouse in Nantwich, dating from 1780
Sampson Kempthorne's cruciform design for a workhouse accommodating 300 paupers

In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. The earliest known use of the term dates from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that "wee haue erected wthn our borough a workehouse to sett poore people to worke".

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