This belief led classical liberal politicians to pass the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, which limited the provision of social assistance.

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 was defended on " scientific or economic principals " while the authors of the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 were seen as not having had the benefit of reading Malthus.

The Great Poor Law Report of 1834 showed that communism was widespread in the rural areas of England.

Early welfare programs in Europe included the English Poor Law of 1601, which gave parishes the responsibility for providing poverty relief assistance to the poor.

This system was substantially modified by the 19th-century Poor Law Amendment Act, which introduced the system of workhouses.

" Significant changes happened in the British Poor Law system in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

Gladstone wrote on 16 July 1892 in his autobiographica that " In 1834 the Government ... did themselves high honour by the new Poor Law Act, which rescued the English peasantry from the total loss of their independence ".

* August 14 – The Poor Law Amendment Act in the UK states that no able-bodied British man can receive assistance unless he enters a workhouse ( a kind of poorhouse ).

The Whigs also passed the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 that reformed the administration of relief to the poor.

One such young writer was Edwin Chadwick, who wrote on hygiene, sanitation and policing and was a major contributor to the Poor Law Amendment Act.

She also worked as a Poor Law Guardian and was shocked by the harsh conditions she encountered in Manchester workhouses.

In December 1894 she was elected to the position of Poor Law Guardian in Chorlton-on-Medlock.

Serious rioting broke out in 1932 in Belfast in protest at the inadequate nature of Poor Law relief and the threat of rioting was ever present.

A workhouse to accommodate 150 people was built at West Hill in Henley in 1790 and later enlarged to accommodate 250 as the Henley Poor Law Union workhouse.

* Poor Law Union

After the Poor Law was abolished in 1930, the Southwark Union Infirmary was renamed Dulwich Hospital and the following year an operating theatre was built.

In 1836 Romford and Hornchurch became separate civil parishes and were grouped into the Romford Poor Law Union.

For Poor Law it was grouped into the Uxbridge Union and was within Uxbridge Rural Sanitary District from 1875.

The oldest buildings on the site, built in the early 1850s, had originally been a large Poor Law residential ' district ' school belonging to the South Metropolitan Schools District.

It continued as a single parish for Poor Law purposes after the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and a single parish governed by a vestry after the introduction of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855.

Mark Blaug's classic 1960 essay The Myth of the Old Poor Law charged the commissioners of 1834 with largely using the Speenhamland system to vilify the old poor law and create will for the passage of a new one.

In 1834 he was appointed secretary to the Poor Law commissioners.

Kempthorne's design was considered by the Poor Law Commissioners to be an improvement on the older workhouses found in many towns and villages, about the majority of which the commissioners were scathing.

The commissioners argued that buildings based on Kempthorne's plans would be symbolic of the recent changes to the provision of poor relief ; one assistant commissioner expressed the view that they would be something " the pauper would feel it was utterly impossible to contend against ", and " give confidence to the Poor Law Guardians ".

These were committees which were responsible for Poor Law administration which could employ assistant commissioners.

Others followed, and one on the state of Farnham workhouse, published in 1867, led to an inquiry by the Poor Law Board, which justified the report of The Lancet commissioners.

Poor singers often faced harsh criticisms from the judges, especially from Simon Cowell ( whose controversial rantings also made him famous on American Idol ).

Between 1750 and 1850 the farm labourer faced the loss of his land, the transformation of his contract and the sharp deterioration of his economic situation by the time of the 1830 riots he had retained very little of his former status except the right to parish relief, under the Old Poor Law system.

Rivers's greatest success came in the mid-to late-1960s with a string of hit songs ( including the # 1 hit " Poor Side of Town ", " Summer Rain ", and " Secret Agent Man "), but he has continued to record and perform to the present.

Poor sanitation is perhaps the South Province's greatest health hazard.

Colman, then manager of that house, wrote a number of parts designed to suit his talents, and two of Fawcett's greatest successes were as Dr. Pangloss in The Heir at Law ( 1797 ) and as Dr Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman ( 1798 ).

The introduction of the New Poor Law also resulted in opposition.

He was branded Minister of the Poor and the Opposition Minister because of his way of dealing with limited income people and the opposition.

Had it not been for machinery, the Poor Law Amendment Act never would have passed — nay, never would have been ventured upon, because the whole force of popular indignation would have been directed against the general plunder, while opposition was much mitigated in consequence of the casual provision which machinery offered as a substitute ; thus has the Poor Law Amendment Act been another direct effect upon machinery.

Soon hundreds of households were settled, and an outcry of opposition went up from hostile Chartists, the press, the Poor Law authorities who feared the weight of their failures, and other quarters.

Under the terms of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 Rochdale became the head of Rochdale Poor Law Union which was established on 15 February 1837 despite considerable local opposition.

I expect that great opposition will be made to this statement, if it so happens, that my Poor Man's Commentary should fall under the eye of any of the Pharisaical characters I have been alluding to.

Darwin's freethinking brother Erasmus was part of this Whig circle and a close friend of the writer Harriet Martineau who promoted the Malthusianism underlying the controversial Whig Poor Law reforms to stop welfare from causing overpopulation and more poverty, which were then being implemented piecemeal in the face of opposition to the new poorhouses.

* Boyer, George R. Poor Relief, Informal Assistance, and Short Time during the Lancashire Cotton Famine Explorations in Economic History 34 ( 1997 ): 56 – 76.

Under the Local Government Act 1894, the area of the local board broadly became the Milnrow Urban District, a local government district in the Rochdale Poor Law Union and administrative county of Lancashire.

Under the Local Government Act 1894, the area of the local board expanded to encompass all of Blatchinworth and Calderbrook and became the Littleborough Urban District, a local government district in the Rochdale Poor Law Union and administrative county of Lancashire.

Anciently Shevington lay in the hundred of Leyland in Lancashire, it was a township in the parish of Standish and in 1837 became part of the Poor Law Union of Wigan.

Under the Local Government Act 1894, the area of the local board broadly became the Wardle Urban District, a local government district in the Rochdale Poor Law Union and administrative county of Lancashire.