... Workhouse Diet.- This has been a week of feasting, for all who can afford it and even those who cannot afford it, have, in many cases, by parochial and charitable agencies, been provided with a square meal, such as they rarely obtain at other times ...

... Pensioners in Workhouses.- Pensioners in Workhouses. The old soldier is proverbially smart even the Heathen Chinee could not teach him much if all that is said of him be true. But it jars 011 one's sense of the proprieties to learn that the British ...

... METROPOLITAN WORKHOUSES. On going into Committee of Supply, _ . _ Viscount Raynham moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the condition and administration of Metropolitan Workhouses, and into the arrangements made and carried out by the parochial ...

... WORKHOUSE INFIRMARIES, THE meeting to set on foot a movement for improving the condition workhouse infirmaries held last Saturday, at 'Willis’s Booms, was numerously attended. The Ifiarl of Carnarvon took the chair, and there were present, among very ...

... CEAIGLOCKHAKT WORKHOUSE December 9 , 1876 . SIB , —The discussion and vote of tuo entire cominrfctce-as reported by you , was-a . crushing at fairto tho seif-rigateous litSe coterie caUed ^ ratiier miscalled , tne Honsa Committee . It was a practical ...

... Workhouse Workhouse 4 AND D] THE WEEK &NI ty 6 1 up 'DAM DA' ...

... Board further consider that the rules made by the guardians w to ' workhouse arrangements , which , in the majority of cases , are essential for the due administration of the workhouse , might be relaxed as regards such inmates as those referred , to ...

... WORKHOUSES AND INFIRMARIES. Among the questions set down for discussion in this department was one relating to the best means improving the management of workhouses, by Wr. S. W. W. North, while papers were contributed by Mr. R. K. VVarwick “Observations ...

... A WORKHOUSE ON FIKE . LOSS OF SIX LIVES . A NEWOASTtiE-tltfDEB-LYSIE correspondent says that early yesterday morning the Workhouse , Newcastleunder-3-iyme , was discovered to be on fire . There were 22 B inmates . Within an hour of tha outbreak one window ...

... THE WORKHOUSE SYSTEM IN IRELAND. Mr. Fagan moved for a Select Committee to investigate the present state of the Irish workhouse system, together with the laws relating to medical charities and the relief of the sick poor in the sister kingdom. Mr. H. ...

... to be hoped, the poor are treated with reasonable consi deration in both these classes of institutions and, as regards, workhouses, we judge from a careful report on The Legal Poor, which appeared in the Times at Christmas, that many- alleviations and ...

... WORKHOUSE. ' Thi*! ir.ornirg, at Coventry Police Court, John 1 McDermott, described labourer, of no settled abode, | was charged with wilfull? lireaking pane of gins* the Sfominrd and doing damage to the amount uf*s«. fcd. The bief of Police stated that ...