... three-fourths of the cost and the Government the rest, which it was .expected would not be much imore than the present cast of workhouses. After some tEscussion, Mr Chaplin said he sympathised with nhe object of the bill. The Local Government Board were taking ...

... of fixing rent according to sliding scale. A mysterious epidemic, resembling that which broke out recently at Greenwich Workhouse, has attacked the nursing staff in a fever hospital at ilatcham. Some 40 nurses are under treatment. Yesterday was carnival ...

... impossible. Another generous proposal is that which seeks to remove certain poor law grievances. With the concentration of workhouses, and a better classification of inmates a very desirable change will be effected in the present state cf matters. Agricultural ...

... omission of a clause which gave a magistrate power to send a person convicted of cruelty to a child to an inebriate home or workhouse, if he was satisfied that the offence was due to habitat , drunkenness. The retention of the clause was supported by Sir ...

... complained before the session against James Clerk, waulkster, there that the said Clerk said he did steal cloth out of his workhouse. The defender said Run dog, run—, he would get his own •again. The libel was found not proven. In 1723, two men from Newmill ...

... situated are left to manage their domestic affairs as best they can. What I propose doing is to clear the whole of the Union Workhouses in Cumberland and adjacent counties of females ranging from 18 to 40 years of age on the following conditions:—They must ...

... f u sat for ver, sit be must make hay while hia sun shines. It is satisfactory to know that the brave need nut die in a workhouse. ...

... as I was. You have my permission to publish my lever, if you desire to do so. (Signed) Minnie Wallace, Norm, The Union Workhouse, Oldham, February 22nd. 1895. In a oesomnnication dated January 'Nth, 1895, Mrs. Henrietta McCallum, of 40, Downstield Road ...

... of care and inquiry says —There has undoubtedly been since 1870 a large increase in the number of patients in asylums and workhouses, but proportionately more in the former than in the latter. After deducting transfers and re-admissions the advance in the ...

... she 11 1, talk of the sober man's drink bill. What sober man's drink bill ? It was the rates he keep up, and the prisons. workhouses, and he had to build for those criminals who hail their personal liberty. It was a fact that drank moderately—just a little ...

... want to point out some thing. Passing down a short lane we emerge into an ordinary courtyard, or quadrangle, crested by workhouses and offices of divers kinds. It is a very common looking square this, and we just stop a moment near the mouth of one of ...

... coming, in their later days, to be unable to support themselves without help from the poor rates, or else going to the workhouse. How a man with a wife and family could, on a wage of 184 or 22s a week, lay past anything for a rainy day was more than ...