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... Christmas Day in the Workhouse. On Christine' Day Mr John Burns, M. P., delivered what might well be described as • Christmas sermon to the inmates of the Wandsworth workhouse, to which he paid • surprise •isit just about the time the inmates were to ...
... POST•MORTEWS IN WORKHOUSES. The Local Government Board, in reply to the representation of the Poor-Law Medical Officers' Association respecting the question of alluvium the medical oire of workhouses to make post-wale examinatMns of the holies of paupers ...
... FIRE AT A WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY. A serious fire broke out about three o'clock on Sunday morning in tile infirlinirp of the Cambridge Union Workhouse. Fortuuately a short time since the women were removed from this buildiug, which was now occupied by the ...
... CHOPPING THE TAIL OF A WORKHOUSE CAT. llenry Ildridge, 38, described as a pauper inmate of the City of Loudon Uuion, Homertun, was charged at Woiship•street Police-court on Saturday with having elf treated a cat by chopping off apiece of its tsil. —John ...
... OUR prisons and our workhouse. are filled with people rained through drink. 4 r buts the majority of the crimes committed to th e tams cause, and our people are now thorrituthly convinced that noes. care must he to reduce thin national failing. A great ...
... Guardians. Having an otter from the General to take able-bodied men from the workhouse down to the Darkest England colony at flatileigh, they asked some 50 men to exchange the workhouse for the colony, and the Guardians agreed to allow General Booth at the ...
... NOTES. (11! SPICLLL COSIMPONDIN 7f). Alcohol sn Workhouses. FOR a long time now the Boards of Gusrdians all over the country have been serinuely concerned about the overcrowded state of many of the workhouses and asylums, and the heavy burden these institutions ...
... who poisoned themselves rather than go to the workhouse. The jury found they I comntitted suicide while of unstilted mind brought about by dtrees, and the coroner I remarked that the horror of the workhouse might be in great measure done away with if all ...
... IVAY OF DEFYING THE POLICE. AN extraordinary scene is reported to have taken place at the New R3BB, county Waterford, Union Workhouse. In consequence of a dispute as to the relief of evicted persons, the Coca! C vernment Board appointed official paid guardians ...
... SINGULAR CLAIM FOR COMPENSAIIoN. A short time ago a tramp named William Iht nn was admitted to the vagrant ward of the Oswesdiy Workhouse, and he was subsequently put to break stones. While so employed a piece of stone struck one of his eyes and injured it to ...
... There was received at the Bromyard Railway Station • hamper two feet by eight inches, addressed to the Governor of the Workhouse, Bromyard. It had been despatched from one of the Worcester railway stations, carriage unpaid. On arrival at Bromyard, something ...
... ley, 36, a pauper inmate of the West Ham Union, was charged with refractory conduct in the workhouse. Prisoner, it seems, had been a pauper inmate of the workhouse for some years, and she has given • great deal of trouble, having been, according to her ...