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Enumerates the numbers of paupers in almshouses on Jan 1, 1910 and admitted during 1910; the color, sex, age, nativity, and other personal characteristics, and the numbers who left almshouses by death discharge, or transfer. Contains data for the U.S., census regions, states, and individual institutions.
Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim 'you are driving me to the poorhouse!' or remember the card in the Monopoly game which says 'Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!' Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Exploring the history of the 'inmates' as well as staff and officials in New England, this book connects contemporary times to the 'poorhouse' history as the homeless shelter, jail, prison, and other institutions again hold millions of poor people under institutional care, sometimes in the very same structures that were poorhouses.