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As John Slack writes, the dissolution of the monasteries destroyed much of the institutional fabric which had provided charity for the poor
, leaving a perceived vacuum which had somehow to be filled
(Slack 16). To this end, several of the hospitals that had been taken under the possession of the crown in the dissolution were granted to the royal hospitals
. Despite the name, the unified hospital system was a civic program under the administration of the royal hospitals
were as follows:
As recalled in the
2. Aldermen and 6. Commoners, and afterward more were appointed, to the number of 24, to address the problem of poverty in London (Stow 1633, sig. 2G4r). The resulting report created three degrees of poverty, each with three subdivisions. The three general categories were poverty by
impotency(unable to work because of age, blindness, or lameness), by
causalty(temporarily unable due to injury or disease), or
thriftlessness(which includes
Rioutours,
Vagabonds, and
the Idle person, as Strumpets and others) (Stow 1633, sig. 2G4r). Christ’s Hospital was designated for those falling under the first category, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and St. Thomas Hospital for the second, and Bridewell, where
the vagabond and idel Strumpet is chastised and compelled to labour, to the overthrow of the vicious life of idleness, for the third (Stow 1633, sig. 2G4r). Thus, although part of London’s civic hospitals program, Bridewell functioned more like a prison and workhouse than a hospital in the modern sense. While Bethlehem Hospital is left out of this account from the
St Bartholomew’s for the sick, St Thomas for the old and impotent, Christ’s Hospital in the old Greyfrairs for the(Slack 231).virtuous education and bringing upof orphan children and foundlings, Bethlehem Hospital for lunatics, and Bridewell for employing the idle poor
Because St. Katherine’s Hospital was founded by the crown originally, it was not affected by the dissolution. Similarly, Savoy Hospital was held by the crown before the dissolution, and its status was therefore not affected by it.