The Poorhouse and Poverty in Crieff in the late Victorian Period
The stigma of social and physical handicap Poorhouses in Scotland Scotland has had a different Poor Law system to that of England . In 1579 the Scottish Parliament legislated enabling individual parishes to remunerate the impoverished living therein .It established a system which was not just an enumeration of the destitute but an examination of whether these individuals could find alternative means of support from other individuals or family members .They made begging and vagrancy public nuisances The Act intended to remove the responsibility for the support of the poor from the church to the parishes . Magistrates were ordered to build Correction Houses or workhouses so that beggars could be made to work. In 1843, a Commission of Enquiry was set up to suggest improvements to the Scottish Poor Law system. Proposals suggested included: Setting up a Board of Supervision and Parochial Boards ,the levying of a poor rat...