Public general hospital originated in the almshouse infirmaries established as early as colonial times by local governments to care for the poor. 公立医院源自殖民地时期政府为了救济穷人而建立的救济院中的医务所。
There were “Overseers of the Poor, ” pauper auctions, and laws of settlement; and there were almshouses, “bridewells, ” and “houses of industry.”
有“对穷人的监督者”、贫民拍卖和定居法;还有救济所、“拘留所”和“工房”。
历史
The poorest people in the parish of Winchester in Southern England take up residence in hospitals ? ? and the almshouse of noble poverty.
在英格蘭南部Winchester教區中最貧窮的人們住到了圣十字架医院和穷人的收容所。
经济学人 Culture
The earliest social homes were almshouses—institutions for the old and decrepit built by rich benefactors with an eye on their souls.
最早的社会之家是救济院——由富有的捐助者着眼于他们的灵魂而为年老体衰者建造的机构。
米德尔马契(二)
" Peter was a bad liver, and almshouses won't cover it, when he's had the impudence to show it at the last" .
“彼得的肝脏不好, 救济院不会收拾它, 当他最后厚颜无耻地表现出来时” 。
起源的故事
In some of the cases listed earlier, the housing assistance came in the form of private charitable donations that built shared homes for poor families (like almshouses).
I think it is the only way to keep us out of the almshouse, and I believe it to be a perfectly sure way.
我认为这是让我们远离救济院的唯一方法,而且我相信这是一个非常可靠的方法。
成功人士的建议
In 1523, 52 houses of an estate called the Fuggerei were built by Fugger, it was originally an almshouse intended to serve as a retirement home for his aged servants.
Arabella smiled grimly as she resumed her way, and practised dimple-making all along the road from where the pollard willows begin to the old almshouses in the first street of the town.
Almshouses are charitable housing provided to enable people (typically elderly people who can no longer work to earn enough to pay rent) to live in a particular community. They are often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain forms of previous employment, or their widows, and are generally maintained by a charity or the trustees of a bequest.