poorhouses

Many counties used to have what they called poorhouses -- before my time, but I've surely heard about them.

Remarks At Roundtable On Women And Retirement Security ITY National Archives 1998

"That's the way people get to look who live in poorhouses," she said.

The Little Colonel Annie Fellows 1895

They are those who would keep their coins in their pockets before giving to charity, damanding that the less fortunate all be sent to his tax-supported poorhouses.

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If they didn't have a relative to take them in, there really were poorhouses -- awful places.

Caryl Rivers: The Greedy Geezers Libel Caryl Rivers 2011

Alternately, if disease isn't (quite as much of) an issue, there's poorhouses, where clothes are donated.

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If they didn't have a relative to take them in, there really were poorhouses -- awful places.

Caryl Rivers: The Greedy Geezers Libel Caryl Rivers 2011

If they didn't have a relative to take them in, there really were poorhouses -- awful places.

Caryl Rivers: The Greedy Geezers Libel Caryl Rivers 2011

Before children began earning money working in factories, they had been sent to live in parish poorhouses, apprenticed as unpaid household servants, rented out for backbreaking agricultural labor, or became beggars, vagrants, thieves, and prostitutes (Nutten).

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We stuffed them in poorhouses with criminals and sick people so they could die away from us.

HUFFPOST HILL - Rick Perry Campaign Failing To Uphold Candidate's Lofty Morals Eliot Nelson 2011

In those years, most of the mentally ill in America wound up in poorhouses or prisons, but in 1827 an “Act Concerning Lunatics” forbid the confinement of insane persons in jail and a number of institutions were built around the country.

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