Part of the income of nine thousand francs brought in by the mill and the rest of my property will be devoted to giving
outdoor relief in hard winters to those who really stand in need of it.
1834: The Poor Law Amendment Act was passed, abandoning the system of
outdoor relief by which parishes looked after their poor and replacing it with the workhouse.
Early "
outdoor relief" provided money to people who were unable to provide for themselves.
Working from the Royal Commission Report of the Poor Laws which the Speenhamland reforms instituted, Marx recounts how the payment of '
outdoor relief' (i.e.
The task of these boards was to administer both indoor (workhouse) and
outdoor relief, levying rates on landowners to pay for the aid.
Outdoor relief--that is, providing benefits to people not residing in the poorhouse--was a widespread practice, but not every parish offered
outdoor relief, and some counties, like the Bennets' Hertfordshire, were making it increasingly difficult to gain admittance into their crowded poorhouses (Eden 206).
Outdoor relief, or the dispensing of food and fuel to needy families, constituted most of the House of Industry's work in providing for the poor.
Firstly, this mission formalised the first major lay Catholic
outdoor relief welfare program in New South Wales in an era before government welfare relief.
The key questions to be decided were: first whether or not Ireland's poor had a basic right to social security and if this right extended to the able-bodied poor; second, if Ireland's poor could safely receive
outdoor relief or if they required the discipline of the workhouse and less eligibility.
Throughout the nineteenth century, charity had taken two different forms:
outdoor relief provided alms to people in their homes or on the streets, and in-house charity aided people inside of poorhouses, hospitals, and other institutions.
Following the 1834 English Poor Law Reforms, English and American authorities provided relief to poor people in institutions, "indoor relief," in preference to relieving the poor in their own homes, "
outdoor relief." Indoor relief, reformers believed, would discourage all but the truly destitute from seeking public relief and thus discourage pauperization, or as we would say, chronic dependency.
The number of inmates of the Wolverhampton workhouse last week was 1,024, as against 1,099 in the corresponding week of last year, while the
outdoor relief given amounted to pounds 276, against pounds 396 in the same week of last year.