Stoke:
Stoke
replaced the Penkhull workhouse in 1832 with a new and remote one on London
Road, where it was hoped that the plan "would prove beneficial to the
industrious poor, operate as a check on those who only used relief because
they were too idle to work, and, at the same time be the means of greatly
reducing the rates." In the 1832-5 period 5 rates had to be levied to
meet the costs of poor relief - £8,000 on out-relief and £1,200 on workhouse
relief.
also see Poverty and the North
Staffordshire Workhouses
