Interesting Workhouse Document
August 29th, 2006 by Stephen
An amusing document I came across in the course of my work earlier this month – recounting the minutes of the board of a workhouse (as in the Dickensian workhouses of the 19th Century Britain):
Resolved: to raise the privy wall so as to prevent intercourse between males and females therein.
The mind boggles!
(Perhaps I had better add, by means of explanation, that the word “intercourse” here meant chatting).
