The family would then make its way to the workhouse, where their clothes were put into storage, and they would be issued with a uniform, given a bath and subjected to a medical examination.
The Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834, meant that workhouses were now administered by unions — groupings of parishes — presided over by a locally elected Board of Guardians.
Women took on domestic chores such as cooking, laundry and sewing, while men performed physical labour, usually stone breaking, oakum picking or bone crushing.
She is transferred to Leicester on September 26th 1901 and leaves there a year or so later, on November 15th 1902, when she goes to Epsom, to the Horton Asylum.