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7 Cards in this Set
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Problems driving this effort |
- Rising unemployment (loss of agricultural jobs) - Better enforcing other acts in place to help the poor - 1832 Sunderland Cholera Epidemic - 1833 Poor Law Reform (patchy provision) - 1837/1838 Typhoid Epidemics |
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What happened with the commission |
- 836 commissioners combined 7915 parishes - Into 365 Unions, regarding a population of 6.2 million - 43% of England & Wales accounting for 65% of total poor rates - 350 workhouses built mainly in the South of England |
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Edwin Chadwick (his influences) |
- Tom Paine (Population control) - Jeremy Bentham - Utilitarianism |
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Opposition to the commission |
- Many rate payers resistant to spending more than they had to, given lots of these problems did not affect them - MP's similarly had their own vested interests in mind |
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Recommendations of the commission |
- Supply of fresh clean water (universally) - Toilets provided in all homes (all houses connected to sewage systems - 600 elected boards of guardians |
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Strengths of the commission |
- Combining their institutions into unions - Workhouses being more affordable due to this - Carried out an in-depth report investigating in a way never done before |
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Weaknesses of the commission |
- Indoor relief could be easily abused when trying to save money giving paupers at times inhumane conditions - The workhouse would purposely be setup to be a deterrant and have the conditions of the lowest common labourer - People once placed in a workhouse had no hope of gaining enough to find a real job - People and their families were separated from their wives and children |
