438 APPENDIX IL POOR LAW 



The workhouse test was denounced as inhuman ; the houses were condemned 

 as Bastilles of the poor ; the classification of the inmates was resisted as 

 contrary to nature. Though the Commissioners for some time steadily 

 persevered in their policy, it cannot be said that a complete victory rested 

 with them or with their successors (1847), the Poor Law Board. The points 

 which Parliament left open in 1834 are still those on which administrators of 

 the Poor Law are divided. 



