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1. "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse": Kansas Poor Relief.

Author

Holt, Marilyn Irvin

Subjects
*ALMSHOUSES, *POOR communities, *POOR people, *HISTORY, *SERVICES for the poor, *GOVERNMENT policy, KANSAS state history
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.

Published
2016

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