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poorhouse <a poorhouse; poorhouses> N

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Unless relatives or friends took them in, such children were committed to the county poorhouse or permitted to run loose in the community.
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The infirmary, poorhouse, and asylum eventually became overcrowded.
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At that time growing use of the poorhouse and poor farm were also seen as institutional alternatives for debtors' prisons.
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A poorhouse could even be part of the same economic complex as a prison farm and other penal or charitable public institutions.
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The modern prison system (along with local jails) is a collection of ghettos or poorhouses reserved primarily for the unskilled, the uneducated, and the powerless.
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The traces of the old poorhouse can still also be found on the roadside.
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In contrast, recipients of indoor relief were required to enter a workhouse or poorhouse.
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The ground floor was for a time used as a municipal poorhouse.
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She saw the conditions at the county poorhouse, and was asked to take over care of the sick and poor.
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Every crofter under the age of seventy was removed on threat of imprisonment, with those over that age being sent to the poorhouse.
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