... WORKHOUSE HORRORS. CHILDREN WHIPPED WITH STINGING NETTLES. At a meeting of tire Hackney Board of Guardiar. yesterday terrible story of fiendish cruelty to young, children was told. Public attention had been called alleged acts of systematic cruelty practised ...

... SINGING IN THE WORKHOUSE DENOUNCED AS A NUISANCE BY A DOCTOR. At a meeting of the Hunslet Board of Guardians Mr. Kobb said certain parties had been in yesterday, f visiting the infirmary an singing. the habit o topped the Mr. Butterick thought if this ...

... the wards at the certain lying-in Workhouse. The effect of the is that report the Local Government Board feel bound to point oni, having regard io the urgent need for consider: able expenditure in the present workhouse various directions to make it adequate ...

... living since you left the Workhouse Prisoner :In York Street. I wish to God I had died there. I haven't long live now ; I keep throwing blood up in mouthfuls I am nearly done. The Stipendiary : You had better back the Workhouse. Prisoner : will die there ...

... THE HUDDERSFIELD WORKHOUSE. CHARGES AGAINST THE OFFICIALS. MEETING OF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. At the fortnightly meeting the Beard of Guardians of the Hudderstield Union, to-day, a copy of letter, sent to the Local Government Board by Mrs. F. Whiteley, widow ...

... morning in Tipperary workhouse. Deceased on being forced to leave his premises was accommodated with a shop in New Tipjierary, but, failing do any business, and his savings becoming exhausted, he was obliged to seek refuge in the workhouse, the directors of ...

... THE WORKHOUSE DISASTER. At the inquest on Saturday in reference to the disastrous fire at the Newcastle-under-Lyme Workhouse, by which six persons lost their lives, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and commended the master, the matron ...

... WAKEFIELD WORKHOUSE. A TRAMP'S CHARGE AGAINST A PORTER. THE CASE DISMISSED. Considerable interest was evinced in ease heard Wakefield City Court, to-day, whioh Archibald Totman. porter at the Union Workhouse, Wakefield, was charged with assaulting tramp ...

... KEIGHLEY WORKHOUSE. ASSAULT BY AN IMBECILE. The Medical Officer of the Keighley Union to-day complained that the accommodation for imbeciles was not of a satisfactory nature. ** The number of male imbeciles, he said, is in excess of the number beds ...

... THE WORKHOUSE TRAGEDY AT NEWCASTLE. MURDER OR SUICIDE? The coroner's inquiry into the 'circumstances of the death of James Murray, inmate of Newcastle Workhouse, will resumed to-night, but little further evidence has procured, and the solution of the ...

... FROM WORKHOUSE TO GAOL. TWO MEN WHO WERE DISSATISFIED AT lIUNSLET. Two young men, .--I George Barrel* (-'I), glazier, and Arthur Cusworth uR), labourer, were in the laed- Assize-:, io-day, for (lie arson a com ttntliwcll, No\ ember i-i. 183 S. appeared ...

... before the Workhouse Committee, and was told that if anything of the kind occurred again she would be brought before the magistrates. The Board continued the discussion, and was stated that a woman bad been prosecuted for assault at the workhouse. ...