What is the difference between indoor and outdoor relief and who was offered different kinds of relief? Historians often talk about relief (under both the Old Poor Law: 1601 to 1834, and the New Poor Law: 1834 to 1930) in terms of both outdoor and indoor relief.

2018年3月13日 · Indoor relief can never be what it should be until separate provision, on a reasonable scale, is made for all the main classes of the distressed, helpless, and vicious poor.

2022年8月31日 · When people applied for help from the local or national state in Victorian times, they requested relief. In their letters you will find people writing about indoor and outdoor relief. What do these terms mean and what's the difference?

“Indoor relief” has been the greatest means of relief for the poor for the last 500 years. Contrary to modern beliefs about the poor and public relief, poverty has not always been regarded as such a disgrace.

2014年1月22日 · Aid for those who received help at home was called “outdoor relief,” as you did not have to give up your home and independence to move into an institution, which was called “indoor relief.” Settlement was extremely hard for poor people to achieve.

Outdoor relief was principally given to the able-bodied poor to allow them to remain at home and seek work as and when it became available. Indoor relief was intended for those who were unable to look after themselves such as orphaned children, the sick or elderly.

The Elizabethan Poor Law provided for Indoor Relief and Outdoor Relief. The Poor Law put into legislation the right of local Justices of the Peace to levy tax for the relief and assistance of the Poor.

2002年11月12日 · Two types of relief were available. Outdoor relief: the poor would be left in their own homes and would be given either a 'dole' of money on which to live or be given relief in kind - clothes and food for example. This was the norm. Indoor relief: the poor would be taken into the local almshouse; the ill would be admitted to the hospital

2023年11月21日 · Poor relief for impoverished communities came in two types: outdoor relief (aid to those in their own homes) and indoor relief (aid to those who could not work).

“outdoor” relief was still granted to some, but this was increasingly seen as expensive, inefficient, and encouraging laziness and bad habits. Most towns also abandoned the old vendue system of privatized care in favor of a more centralized, institutional solution. Most New Englanders had come to believe