Dick, Check this link for information on workhouses. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?poorlaws/poorlaws.shtml If the link fails, Google workhouses.org Good luck Richard Brown Bromley, Kent U.K. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 06:46:56 -0000 From: "Richard Fowler" <dfowler1@onetel.com> Subject: [KENT-ENG] Workhouse/Hospital/ ship Births and deaths :=>< SNIP What happened before the centralised Union workhouses were established? When were there earlier epidemics in Thanet? Was a hospital ship used in Thanet and did this change procedures? Many Thanks Dick Fowler ***************************************