... 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 parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved that Oliver should be ' fanned,' or in other words that he should be despatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where the J uvenile offenders againq the poor.laws,'' ...

... IN THE WORKHOUSE. [BY OLD HAND.] Since the been admitted to the Newport Board of Guardians, divers things have come to light. To do them justice, the reporters are very diligent in notating parochial small talk. There is • vast amount of this commodity ...

... 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 ...

... SCENE IN • WORKHOUSE. At Marylebone Police-court on Monday, Catherine Connelly, • tall, powerful Woman, an inmate of the Marylebone Workhouse, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with being drunk and disorderly in the workhouse. She was further charged with ...

... 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 ...

... ---------- POETRY IN THE WORKHOUSE. -_ The following lines have been forwarded to us by a Correspondent. LJNINI ON A DINNER.—BY JOHN INNATP. To 'Master, Matron, and the Board, We inmates all agree, To thank you for the Christmas Dinner, And abio Christmas ...

... THE WORKHOUSE CHAPLAINCY. It is not often that parochial functionaries and Boards of Guardians evince more appreciation of clerical ministrations and oonscimations discharge of ecclesiastical duties than Lord Bishop., and those who have in their gifts ...

... AN EPISODE AT THE WORKHOUSE. 0 ! the Poor Vurkus Boy! —Antos. Truss was a pleasing episode at the last Board of Guardians. Mr W. E. TuomAa, the coal contractor for the Workhouse, desiring to give the inmates a treat, applied to the Board for permission ...

... 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 ...