... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... COURTSHIP IN A WORKHOUSE. At the meeting of the Warrington Board of Guardians, last week, the clerk said he had received a letter from an inmate of the workhouse desiring him to marry one of the female inmates. The man had been a law stationer, and had ...

... 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 ...

... LOVE IN A WORKHOUSE. The Warrington Guardian gives the following account of a somewhat amusing episode which occurred at a meeting of the Runcorn Board of Guardians, held last week :—Towards the conclusion of the business a man. named Fitzgerald, a painter ...

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... A WORKHOUSE MASTER'S FAMILY. The Warwick Board of Guardians, on Saturday, discussed a difficulty which doubtless also exists in many other unions. The master and matron were appointed some dozen years ago, without incumbrances, at a joint salary of ...

... ALLEGED MALPRACTICES AT THE ABERGAVENNY WORKHOUSE. A meeting was held yesterday, at Abergavenny, of a Committee appointed at the last meeting of the Board of Guardians, to investigate certain charges of ill-treatment to sick paupers, brought forward last ...

... USE OF ALCOHOLIC STIMULANTS IN WORKHOUSES. At a Conference of Guardians, held at Brighton, Mr. Robert Patching, chairman of the Brighton Board of Guardians, read a paper on The Use of Alcoholic Stimulants in Workhouses. He contended that a great portion ...