... OLD WORKHOUSE LIFE. THE recent announcement of drastic changes in Local Government Law affecting the relief and care of the poor prompts one turn hat* some considerations the way in panpers were treated in what we still persist calling the old days. When ...

... this is probably unique in municipal records, for I Icnow of other case where a former pauper inmate of a workhouse has returned to the same workhouse in the position of chairman. When a member of the London County Council I worked on some of its most important ...

... OLD WORKHOUSE LIFE. THE recent announcement of drastic changes in Local Government Law affecting the relief and care the poor prompts one to turn back to some considerations of the way in were treated in what we still persist calling the ...

... she’s taken me out of the workhouse.” A fortnight later he appeared again at the hospital and asked to see the matron. “A gentleman gave me a penny this morning, ma’am,” he said to her. Please may I put it in your money-box, because you were so kind to ...

... K girl who chooses to live for six months in workhouse, rather than marry me, is not the girl I want fco marry. I release you.” , ...

... letter, stating the facts about Mrs. Anson’s death. I suppose the boy is tlhe workhouse?*’ “Who knows often beats to tell what becomes the kids who are left alone in London. Poor little devils, they mostly the bad. Thera should be some means looking after ...

... 1o life, and was about to-be taken tbe Workhouse Infirmary, a tall, handsome man pushed his way through the. small crowd of idlers gathered round the cub waiting before the door of her lodgings Aaron’s Buildings; and his eyes fell on the frail form of ...

... most lavish fashion, the poor rate is going up leaps and bounds, and already the cost per head in workhouses is £27 12s. lOd. a year—in London workhouses £35 11s. 7Jd. To think that these miserable old men and women cost their follows on an average £27 ...

... 1917. Being girl of wit, she curbed her tongue when the Colonel returned. But she took eariy opportumty of visiting the workhouse herself, and studying at first hand the conditions of the older oauoer* and of the infirm. What she learned there made heJ ...

... b b b THREEPENCE. New Use for a Village Workhouse During his peregrinations traveller came upon charming house tho roadside, which immediately claimed his attention. It bore a fresh coat of white paint, which was well set off by green blinds.! There was ...

... that the child belonged to you, so I have sent him—er—to—er—” “To where? Oh, do be quick.” “Well, in fact, to the workhouse.” “The workhouse? Oh, how could you!” Miss Black-Topham smiled grimly. “ Better there than the police-station, ar d better either ...

... compelled to go for refuge to the workhouse.” “The workhouse!” cried Hilary, surd, Toml” , “In future,” went on Tom, apparently not noticing the interruption, “all correspondence must be addressed to ‘Mr. Tom Blount, The Workhouse, Wemblin.’ Of course, I’m not ...