The Victorian Workhouse

During the Victorian period, there were many poor or homeless people. A lot of them were later sent to workhouses. Even though workhouse does provide people a place for them to stay and have food, the condition of life was extremelly bored and harsh. When they first enter the workhouse, every person's hair will be seperated. Male and female would be seperated in the workhouses, including children and adults (children under two years old are allowed to stay with their mother). The schedule for the inmate in workhouse is rise, breakfast, work, lunch, work, supper, and bed time. By the way, they need to wake up at 6:00 am every day, except during winter time they can wake up at 7:00. Children are able to have education, but only learn the basic abilities, such as reading, writing, and caculating simple math. The food over there will be based on neutrition caculated by neutrists. The life over there was pretty similar to prison. Boring, harsh, and again very boring...I think Scrooge doesn't know about the condition of living in workhouse.