... CHILDREN IN WORKHOUSES: Return showing the number of children in the workhouses of 614 unions local acts and Gilbert's act, in England and Wales, OIl Thursday, the 18 th. day of March, 1847. Boys, GIULS. ITotal Children of', in the Under [3 Yrs 7 Yrs ...

... there is very much less than here. When the. idea of the workhouse was first started, the industrial school was still in view. It was evident from the commissioners' reports that the workhouse was no place to rear children in, as they suffered a contamination ...

... N ARBEllTH. CHOLERA IN THE NA&BB«,TH WOBKHOUSE.—Ten eases of Asiatic cholera occurred in the above workhouse during the past week, all of which proved fatal. There has been no fresh since Sunday. At a special meeting of the board of guardians 0.1 Saturday ...

... A FEW days ago a blind cripple, a tailor by trade, and now a 1 out fifty years ofage, was taken to the Leeds workhouse by a policeman, who bad found him wandering about at the east end of the town, in a state bordering on insanity. On being searched in ...

... assent to such dictation from any school inspector. If the children were not trained up to habits of industry, whilst in the workhouse, they might well become worthless characters when they were turned out of it. He had been of opinion that the idea of es ...

... and frozen to the ground; but upon moving him he still breathed, although unconscious. He was re- moved oh a litter to the workhouse, and had every attention paid him the surgeon to the house, who saw at once the case was hopeless. The poor fellow lingered ...

... Black-hole of Youghal workhouse. The facts of the case are set forth in the Examiner as follows:- On Friday, the 20th of April, a weak, tottering man—or the skeleton of what once might be called a man-staggered into the workhouse of Youghal. He was lean ...

... were not in the house. In the White Chapel Union case, in deliver- ing judgment, the Court says, section 38 enacts that the Workhouses of such Unions shall be governed, and the relief of the poor in such Unions shall be administered, by the Board of Guardians ...

... whom the poor are mainly indebted for the-collection of the above sums. THEIn; have been no fresh cases of cholera in the workhouse. since those reported in this paper, a fortnight ago. Tnv. C'OVNTY COURT was held in the Town-hall, on Saturday Nothing deserving ...

... flying from the charnel which is seething around them—but it is better to let the writer finish his tale of horrors Her workhouses are crammed to suffocation, and her poor are dying in hundreds for lack of food-her resources of home- grown produce are ...

... be slaughtered, and distributed amongst the indigent poor of Llanelly and its neighbourhood. The inmates, of the Llanelly workhouse, consisting of forty- five persons, were on Christmas day plentifully regaled with roast beef and plum pudding, also at the ...

... NORTH WALES. STATE IN A WORKHOUSE.—WE copy the following from the Carnarvon Herald of last weet\. Dr. Roberts's interest in the cause of education and the welfare and elevation of the poor is well known throughout the principality. His remarks on the ...