noun

definition

A charitable institution where poor or homeless people are lodged.

definition

A workhouse.

Examples of poorhouses in a Sentence

Between 1881 and 1898 the chief increases took place in the endowments of hospitals; orphan asylums; infant asylums; poorhouses; almshouses; voluntary workhouses; and institutes for the blind.

There are parish poorhouses in Dunrossness and Unst, besides the Shetland combination poorhouse at Lerwick.

The Highlands and Islands Most of the earlier poorhouses were erected in Scotland's more highly populated southern lowlands.

Return to top of page poorhouses, Poor Law, etc Details of Poor Law Unions in Warwickshire, from Rossbret.

The indoor institutions are the more important in regard to endowment, and consist of hospitals for the infirm (a number of these are situated at the seaside); of hospitals for chronic and incurable diseases; of orphan asylums; of poorhouses and shelters for beggars; of infant asylums or institutes for the first education of children under six years of age; of lunatic asylums; of homes for the deaf and dumb; and of institutes for the blind.

The commissioner must inspect once each year all penal, correctional and eleemosynary institutions, including public hospitals, jails, poorhouses and corporations and organizations doing charitable work; and the commissioner appears as next friend in cases affecting the property of orphan minors, and has power to investigate complaints against public and private institutions whose charters may be revoked for cause by the commissioner.

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