Meanings of local workhouse in English

On his instructions the body was taken to the mortuary adjoining the local workhouse.

The local workhouse, high on the eastern extremity of the village, was operative until the 1920s.

What's more, a local workhouse had its own well, and very few of the residents there got cholera during the outbreak.

From now on, all those in need of help could apply to the local workhouse, in which they could be either incarcerated or fed.

Whilst I was yet a very little fellow, a certain big-boned, well-fleshed, waddling wench from the local workhouse became a unit in my mother's household.