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None whatsoever. You had to be completely destitute, to have no place to live, no job, no family. Sometimes a whole family were forced to enter a workhouses, but the relatives were split up and put to work extremely hard. Their work was free, in exchange for some rags, 1-2 bowls of gruel per day and a bed covered with straw in an unheated room.

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