: Able-bodied inmates were expected to perform tasks such as stone-breaking (often in dedicated cells) or laundry work.
Many workhouse buildings still stand today, though their purposes have changed dramatically: Workhouses of Wales and the Welsh Borders free ...
: Larger workhouses developed into complex sites with dedicated vagrants' wards, infirmaries for the sick, and isolation blocks for disease control. Legacy and Surviving Buildings : Able-bodied inmates were expected to perform tasks