... THE WORKHOUSE. The Master (Mr. Needham) reported that the numher of inmates in the House was 225, as compared with 231 in the corresponding week last year. Sick 80. Dead, William Williams, 43 years, Newport; Delay Eller, 63 years. Newport. ...

... THE WORKHOUSE, The following report of the Visiting Committee upon the state of the Workhouse, was read :- - We find the House particularly clean, and the drainage very good. We were much pleased with the appearance of the children, and the apparent ...

... WORKHOUSE DISCLOSURES. A. correspondent writes: Mr. Baldwin Fleming, Local Gcvernment Inspector, on Monday concluded an inquiry, which has lasted five days, into the death of a young N:omati nimed Mary .la,no Rushworth, at (lay ton Workhouse The death ...

... SHOCKING WORKHOUSE DISCLOSURES. Dr. Lankester, on Wednesday, opened inquests on the bodies of several paupers whose deaths are alleged to hr.ve been caused by the bad condition of the St. Pancras Workhouse Wards. The first inquiry was upon Jane Harris ...

... WORKHOUSE MATRONS. The last occupation suitable to women under Local Government and other official boards is that of matrons of workhouses. There seems no good reason why women from the middle and educated classes should not hold this situation. The one ...

... ROW AT A WORKHOUSE. At Salisbury, on Tuesday, seven able-bodied paupers were committed for trial for having broken 700 panes of glass, and committed other damage to beds and bedding, besides threatening and violently assaulting a porter, and killing a ...

... AN IRISH WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. A report disclosing a. shocking state ef things was, on Saturday, presented by a committee to the Portumna Guardians. The women's dormi- tory and nursery of the workhouse were described as being in a filthy condition. The hospital ...

... THE CHESTER WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. At the last meeting of the Chester Board of Guardians a letter was read from the Local Government Board respecting a pauper named Kirkham, who died from exposure to the cold, and at the inquest some severe remarks were made ...

... YOUNG CHILDREN IN WORKHOUSES. A parliamentary r. turn has , lately been issued, which was moved for by Mr. Charles Gilpin, M.P. for Northampton, and late Secretary to the Poor Law Board, showing the number of children sub- Xcted to corporal punishment ...

... THE OUTRAGE AT THE ROTHERHAM WORKHOUSE. The London Telegraph writes:— At the Sheffield Sessions, one Mary Anne Bennett was charged with an act of almost inconceivably horrible cruelty towards a little boy named Brannen, in the Rotherham Union, of which ...

... MURDER IN A WORKHOUSE. An inmate of the South Dublin Union Work- house, named Margaret Johnstone, aged 55 years, was killed on Saturday evening in a quarrel which occurred between herself and another inmate, named Anne Taylor, about the same age as the ...

... REVOLT AT PRESTON WORKHOUSE. Last week, before the county magistrates, at Preston, Thomas Farror and Richard Gerrard were charged with murderously assaulting the master and clerk of Preston Union Workhouse. The prisoners were insubordinate and incited ...