The Workhouse.
"For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim
of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was
brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation
of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse
authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities
inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether
there was no female then domiciled in "the house" who
was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation
and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse
authorities replied with humility, that there was not. Upon
this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely
resolved, that Oliver should be "farmed," or, in other words,
that he should be despatched to a branch-workhouse some
three miles off, where twenty or thirty-mother juvenile offenders
against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without
the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing,
under the parental superintendence of an elderly female,
who received the culprits at and for the consideration of
seven pence halfpenny per small head per week."
Extract from "Oliver Twist" (Open Library)
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Address:
The Workhouse, Upton Road, Southwell, Nottinghamshire NG25 0PT
Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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