2 adjectives to describe poorhouses

If I choose to take him from a foreign poorhouse and give him shelter, it's nobody's business, Louis Brossard, but my own.

Coming to be past work through infirmities of age, the old man has to face the probability of the parish poorhouse, and reconciling himself to his lot is happily spared the sore trial: "Daily he placed the Workhouse in his view!

2 adjectives to describe  poorhouses