Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order

The Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order was an order from the Poor Law Commission issued on 21 December 1844 which aimed to end the distribution of outdoor relief to the able-bodied poor.^[1]

See also

• Outdoor Labour Test Order

References

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Poor laws of the British Isles

Poor laws by territory

• England and Wales
• Scotland
• Ireland
• Isle of Man

Nantwich workhouse

Old Poor Law

• Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494
• Tudor poor laws
• Poor Relief Act 1597
• Poor Relief Act 1601
• Poor Relief Act 1662
• Relief of the Poor Act 1696
• Poor Relief Act 1722
• Relief of the Poor Act 1782
• House of correction
• Overseer of the poor
• Poor rate
• Poor relief
• Buttock mail

Relief systems

• Outdoor relief
• Speenhamland
• Labour Rate
• Roundsman
• Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor

New Poor Law

• Royal commission (1832)
• Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
• Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845
• Less eligibility
• Workhouse
• Workhouse test
• Board of guardians
• Outdoor Labour Test Order
• Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order
• Poor law unions
• Opposition
• Book of Murder
• Scottish poorhouse

Changes after 1834

• Poor Law Commission
• Poor Law Board
• Local Government Board
• Andover workhouse scandal
• Huddersfield workhouse scandal
• Union Chargeability Act

Decline and abolition

• Liberal welfare reforms
• Royal Commission (1905–09)
• Majority Report
• Minority Report
• Interwar poverty
• National Assistance Act 1948

Other

• Christmas Day in the Workhouse
• Historiography of the Poor Laws
• Timeline of the English Poor Law system
• Poor Relief Act
• List of poor law unions in England
• List of poor law unions in Wales
• List of Irish poor law unions