Chapter 2
The board's philosophy of slow starvation as benevolent reform.
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Chapter 4
Oliver apprenticed to Sowerberry the undertaker, illustrating how parish children are disposed of.
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Old Sally's deathbed and the workhouse's indifference to the dying.
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