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A fairly serious outbreak occurred in 1928 at the workhouse .
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Oh yeah, that's when it got its own workhouse , too, for the parish destitutes.
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Paupers were often taken back from the workhouse to their own parishes for burial.
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That's why they built the cemetery up close to the workhouse , so they could take them over on a barrow.
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The Workhouse Act of 1723 had empowered parishes to apply a workhouse test by denying relief to those who refused to enter.
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The deceased said he never would go into the workhouse .
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The visitors' committee did not always support the workhouse master.
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There were not enough workhouses to cope with the problem.