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Mar 6, 2014 · Using contemporary resources, this article will review the impact of this and other significant changes that took place in wartime, which included variations in working practices, staff shortages, food rationing and a significant rise in the asylum death rate.
- Judith Devine, Philip Barton Wright
- 2014
Mar 4, 2021 · Senior asylum personnel were permitted to purchase up to 7 lbs of fruit a week and unlimited quantities of milk and vegetables from the farm shop and on one occasion in 1915, Armstrong-Jones bought goods to the value of £25.
Oct 31, 2020 · There could be little justification, however, for the inequity demonstrated at Colney Hatch, where, in stark contrast to the low allowance of fresh fruit for patients, the most senior asylum personnel were permitted to purchase up to 7 lbs of fruit a week and unlimited quantities of milk and vegetables. 114 There were other inequitable ...
Oct 31, 2020 · A vast staff served the asylums: doctors, nurses, attendants, artisans, clergy, kitchen and laundry workers, and other who maintained buildings, farm, gardens and cemetery. Ward work was particularly demanding, with long hours, and poor conditions of employment.
- Claire Hilton
- 2021
This resource provides a brief overview of the major moments of detention in modern British history. By looking back over the past century of internment and detention, we can see the stark disjuncture that the 1990s represented in histories of asylum and immigration.
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The Quality of the Food. The quality and quantity of food in the workhouse diet was the subject of regular comment and debate. In 1841, Baxter condemned the workhouse diet as being inferior to that given to transported convicts. He also criticized the variability in the diets of different Unions, for example men in the Cirencester workhouse ...
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An asylum diet was better than in many working households, with fish or meat and vegetables for lunch and bread and cheese supplemented by beer, cocoa and tea. North range, spine corridor, view from west.
