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The Consolidated General Order was a book of workhouse regulations which governed how
workhouse In Britain, a workhouse () was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. (In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses.) The earliest known use of the term ''workhouse'' ...
s should be run in England and Wales.


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Poor Law in Britain and Ireland {{England-law-stub