A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham

Author:Peter Higginbotham
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752492308
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

20 JUNE

1810 According to The Globe, a ‘scene most shocking to humanity’ occurred this evening ‘near Fitzroy Square’ – presumably at the parish workhouse of St Paul, Covent Garden, on Cleveland Street:

Staff and inmates of the St Faith’s workhouse holding a fire drill – a major contribution to the lack of casualties when the building was gutted in 1922.

A poor woman, actually in labour, and attended by her midwife, was delivered of a child at the door of a Poor-house, to which she in vain requested admittance. A crowd collected, and the utmost indignation was expressed at the brutal indifference shewn by the officers of the Poor-house, for while the poor creature was labouring in agony, they remained inexorable. The infant perished during this inhuman scene – at length the people broke open the door of the house and carried the unhappy mother into one of the wards.

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