![]() Commonly, his misfortunes or his vices are stowed away in a remote farm-house on a muddy road. This is peculiarly the case with the pauper whom the State supports entirely, the indoor pauper, as the reports style him. The normal, quiet, legally supported pauper has never taken enough money from us to startle us out of our apathy. True, the vagabond pauper otherwise the tramp has given us a vast deal of trouble but lie is as much outlaw as pauper, and, such as he is, he is a distinctly novel figure in American life. PAUPERISM with us is not the grim menace which it is in Europe. ![]() The term “indoor” may refer to an almshouse, poor house, asylum, county home, infirmary, etc. Note: This article from The Atlantic Monthly describes in great detail the system in use to care for the poor, the abandoned and dependent at that time, including children. ![]() In: Civil War, Reconstruction, and Progressivism, Eras in Social Welfare History, Poverty, Programs, Social Welfare Issues The Indoor Pauper: A Study in 1881īy Octave Thanet, Secretary of the Board of Charities
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