Post-Reform Politics 1834: New Poor Law Poor Law introduced in Elizabethan times: outdoor relief no able-bodied person was to receive money or other help from the Poor Law authorities except in a workhouse conditions in workhouses made very harsh to discourage people from wanting to receive help Workhouses built in every parish ratepayers in each parish or union had to elect a Board of Guardians to supervise the workhouse, to collect the Poor Rate and to send reports to the Central Poor Law Commission the three man Central Poor Law Commission would be appointed by the government
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