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- Title
"Over the Hill to the Poorhouse": Kansas Poor Relief.
- Authors
Holt, Marilyn Irvin
- Abstract
The article talks about the history of poorhouses in counties of Kansas as the centerpiece for relief for the poor locals. Topics discussed include the concept of a poor farm originating in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century legal and social traditions such as the English Poor Law of 1601, creation of workhouses for able-bodied poor in 1697, and the English law of 1788 that established almshouses for the sick, aged and women and children unable to work.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ALMSHOUSES; POOR communities; KANSAS state history; POOR people; HISTORY; SERVICES for the poor; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Kansas History, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
0149-9114
- Publication type
Article