... PENSIONS AND THE WORKHOUSE. They had expected that Old-Age Pensions would do a great deal to ameliorate poverty, but there were many old people who could not get relatives to take them in, and they could not possibly pay rent out of bs, u week, so that ...

... Workhouse Electors. ** There were all sorts of ways of sneak- ing support trom a rival. As an instance, in a small electorate the inmates of a big workhouse might turn the poll, especially in # municipal election. Suppose they were staunchiy in favour ...

... WORKHOUSE BESIEGED. Guardians Made Prisoners by Unemployed. Three thousand unemployed besieged Beiwelty workhouse, Monmouthshire, yesterday, and demanded an improved relief scale. The Guardians sent a telegram to the Ministry of Health asking for an interview ...

... The Chairman asked prisoner if she would go to the Workhouse if the Bench discharged her. Prisoner: No, I won’t go. I would rather b© m prison, because there ar© so many women there (in the workhouse), and I haven’t a bit of peace. When I was there before ...

... WORKHOUSE FIGHT. 80-yean-old Inmate’s Death From Injuries. fatal fight between two aged inmatee Chertsey Workhouse was revealed afcan inquest yesterday on Henry Day (80). was stated that, he was knocked over seat and suffered a fractured rib. The jury ...

... THE WORKHOUSE BAKER. I'The Visiting Committee No led mended the payment of 2. weekly 3 to the Workhouse baker. but the &Nerd had mimed the whole matter to Venting Committee No. 1. Thu Committee now remommenclou that the question payment be not entertained ...

... THE WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY. The following letter with respect to the proposed alterations at the Workhouse Infirmary was read Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W., llih, Nov., 1903. Sir, —I am directed by the Local Government Board advert to your letter ...

... WORKHOUSE BEER. ...

... WORKHOUSE UNKNOWN. In New York the soup kitchens had all been closed, the lodging-houses were 'empty, and organisations like the Salration Army, which provided dinners for the poor, found the people too proud to apply to them. At Cedar Rapids, he visited ...

... THE WORKHOUSE EXTENSIONS. letter was read from the Local Government Board, with respect to the plans for the proposed alterations at tho Workhouse Infirmary. It stated that while they were open to improvement in several respects, and had an alternative ...

... THE FIRST WORKHOUSE. In 1697 J. Carey was instrumental in getting an Act of Parliament for the establishment of a workhouse at Bristol. With this excellent example, a tide set for the suppression of able-bodied pauperism which decreased the cost from ...

... Classification in Workhouses. Mr. J. 11. Sinkinson, M.A., clerk to the Haslingden Guardians, read paper on Mr. Charles Booth’s proposals for Poor Law reforms. Detailing the changes suggested in the administration, he said that under Mr. Booth’s scheme ...