To save people from workhouse rigours.

There had been a great agitation against the workhouse.

Now I come to think of it, it was one of the earliest properties your Trustees acquired.

They bought the Salvation Army and reconstructed it as this.
The idea in the first place was to organise the labour of starving homeless people." "Yes." "Nowadays there are no workhouses, no refuges and charities, nothing but that Department.

Its offices are everywhere.