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" There are no separate bedrooms; there are not even separate cubicles. The young servant out of place, the prostitute recovering from disease, the feebleminded woman of any age, the girl with her first baby, the unmarried mother coming in to be confined... "
Woman, Marriage and Motherhood - Page 60
by Elizabeth Macfarlane Sloan Chesser - 1913 - 287 pages
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By what Authority?: The Principles in Common and at Issue in the Reports of ...

John Henry Muirhead - Poor laws - 1909 - 128 pages
...first baby, the unmarried mother coming to be confined of her third or fourth bastard, the senile, the paralytic, the epileptic, the respectable deserted...refused, are all herded indiscriminately together."* It is not surprising to hear that the mixed Workhouse produces the " mixed official," and both together...
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"Break Up the Poor Law and Abolish the Workhouse": Being Part 1. of the ...

Beatrice Webb - Great Britain - 1909 - 660 pages
...from disease, the feeble-minded woman of any age, the girl with her first baby, the unmarried mother coming in to be confined of her third or fourth bastard, the senile, the paralytic, the epileptic, the respectable deserted wife, the widow to whom Outdoor Relief...
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Women Workers: The Papers Read at the Conference, ...

National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland - 1909 - 260 pages
...from disease, the feeble-minded woman of any age, the girl with her first baby, the unmarried mother coming in to be confined of her third or fourth bastard, the senile- the paralvt'C. the epileptic 'hp rpspe^table dese-t^d wife, the widow, to whom out-relief has...
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The Almshouse, Construction and Management

Alexander Johnson - Almshouses - 1911 - 298 pages
...first baby, the unmarried mother coming in to be conf1ned of her third or fourth bastard, the senile, the paralytic, the epileptic, the respectable deserted...refused, are all herded indiscriminately together. We have found respectable old women annoyed, by day and by night, by the presence of noisy and dirty...
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The Almshouse, Construction and Management

Alexander Johnson - Almshouses - 1911 - 296 pages
...from disease, the feeble-minded woman of any age, the girl with her first baby, the unmarried mother coming in to be confined of her third or fourth bastard, the senile, the paralytic, the epileptic, the respectable deserted wife, the widow to whom outdoor relief...
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Woman, Marriage and Motherhood

Elizabeth Macfarlane Sloan Chesser - Marriage - 1913 - 312 pages
...and Italy ; in Denmark, Belgium, Norway and Scotland to a less extent ; whilst in Sweden, France l and Germany the illegitimate births have increased...deserted wife, the widow to whom outdoor relief has been refused1, are all herded indiscriminately together." The association of the young unmarried mother,...
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The Law and the Poor

Sir Edward Abbott Parry - Great Britain - 1914 - 346 pages
...from disease, the feeble-minded woman of any age, the girl with her first baby, the unmarried mother coming in to be confined of her third or fourth bastard, the senile, the paralytic, the epileptic, the respectable deserted wife, the widow to whom outdoor relief...
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The Institution Quarterly, Volume 8

Illinois - 1917 - 672 pages
...first baby, the unmarried mother coming in to be confined for her third or fourth bastard, the senile, the paralytic, the epileptic, the respectable deserted...refused, are all herded indiscriminately together. We have found respectable women annoyed, by day and by night by the presence of noisy and dirty imbeciles....
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