almshouse

How to use almshouse in a sentence

• I discovered that the cul-de-sac at the end of my road was originally built for a square of almshouses — charitable residences, often funded by church coffers — to alleviate the scandalous poverty of pre-welfare-state Britain.

  In London, looking backward to move forward | Henry Wismayer | March 5, 2021 | Washington Post

• Elizabeth studied privately with a physician before medical school and between terms observed cases in an almshouse hospital.

  Determined to practice medicine, two sisters defied conventions | Janet Golden | February 5, 2021 | Washington Post

• With almost 1,200 patients, Laguna Honda Hospital was originally the San Francisco almshouse, and in a way it still is.

  Obamacare’s Overambition: Dr. Victoria Sweet Reads the Law | Victoria Sweet | April 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Every county had a free county hospital for the acutely ill, and a free county almshouse for everyone else who needed care.

  Obamacare’s Overambition: Dr. Victoria Sweet Reads the Law | Victoria Sweet | April 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Once at the wish of a friend I was visiting I went to carry some comforts to a neglected almshouse on a Western prairie.

  Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}