... 1834, which was only brought in after much campaigning from around the land. This new law allowed a person to accept a place into a 'House', commonly known as the Work House. Although the poor person was given shelter and food in return for a days work, the conditions endured were often worse than what was experienced by the recipient before entering this 'charitable' institution, the reason for this was to put off any vagabonds who were too lazy to work an honest days work thus ensuring only the needy and desperate would apply for help. (Joanne de Pennington-Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations. / Frank Field-The Welfare State-Never Ending Reform. These two sources are from www.bbci.co.uk) Although the work house conditions didn't improve, the living conditions outside did, and in the last half of the nineteenth century, sanitation and housing improved due to the 1848 Public Health ...

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