Event

Huddersfield workhouse scandal

May 1848 · 53.66° N, 1.79° W

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When
May 1848
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Event
Coordinates
53.66° N, 1.79° W
Description
Huddersfield workhouse scandal: an inquiry reveals the poor conditions in which inmates have been kept.

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Huddersfield workhouse scandal: an inquiry reveals the poor conditions in which inmates have been kept

Huddersfield workhouse scandal

UK 1848 poor law scandal

The Huddersfield workhouse scandal concerned the conditions in the workhouse at Huddersfield, England in 1848. The problems included overcrowding, disease, food, and sanitation, among others. A report, for instance, described the workhouse as "wholly unfitted for residence for the many scores that are continually crowded into it, unless it be that desire to engender endemic and fatal disease.

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