Assistance given to very poor people not living in a workhouse.
〈英，史〉院外救济（指给救济院之外的穷人的救济）
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The records of the two towns, while providing basic information on the choice of supplementing out relief with a poorhouse, leave central questions unanswered.
Although town records indicate that Bridgewater and Duxbury used out relief as the primary method of public assistance to the poor, each town also constructed or purchased a poor or workhouse after the 1750's.
Rural poorhouses were often only temporary, coexisting with traditional forms of out relief and rarely achieved permanent or continuous usage.