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Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties' Advertiser

Workhouse Britain

... as 142,000 Scottish families could not afford to feed their 255.000 children an 1876 Workhouse diet at present Income Support levels. At today's prices, a Workhouse diet would cost £5.46 per week per children - 30% more than the estimated £4.15 that Income ...

WORKHOUSE CHILDREN

... WORKHOUSE CHILDREN. Thb plea which a medical writer has put forward on behalf the workhouse girl incidentally brings to the front an old problem in conneotion with pauper children. Workhouse lite cannot be good or helpful for children so long as there ...

WORKHOUSE BRIDE

... WORKHOUSE BRIDE. HOW A WIFE WAS CHOSEN UN FAHADB. A young labourer appeared before the Kilim! loan (County Llewrick) Guardians ut their last meeting, and eipreaaod a desire to marry of the women ia the workhouse. Heexplai that had not house, end that ...

ANOTHER. KIPLING YARN

... No. Workhouse, ihe the informtion was obtained there were in the body of the workhouse, apart n the infi' mary and excluding children and iiabeciles, 170 men and 109 women ; total 279. these 279 persons. 74 men and 36 women we e in the workhouse at the ...

THE FOUOT OF ISLAM

... factors which to Sultan knows very well bow Jam to •aeomit WORKHOUSE DIETARIES. Tan now order which baa bam issued by to Local Government Board, la puranance of soma of to to Com- mittoe Workhouse Dietary, has as Ha main object,tba introduction of variety ...

The Fraserburgh Hereto and Northern HUMOUR AT BOHOOL

... inspector sharply how ever yon make thatont!” “Cause, got rabbit of my own at home !” LOVE IN WORKHOUSE. [ASIAN'S SUICIDE. An extraordinary atory of love in workhouse was revealed an inquest on George Horwood in hie 70th yeer), who was found hanging on the ...

A SUGGESTION

... decorated their houses and shops in honour the Queen this year should send their flags and bright atripa of cloth to the workhouses or the elementary schools, or even the infirmaries. The deadly blank walls that face you in those places would bo brightened ...

PAUPERS’ CLOTHING

... clothing for the workhouse uniform. Many people will be glad to hear it. The principle is bottoming generally accepted. Pauper uniform, we >re told, is a relic of barbarous days. atldod so much the sorrow of the sensitive inmates of the workhouses. People love ...

PAUPER NURSING

... the orders now existence, no pauper inmate of workhouse shall future employed to perform the duties of nursing the rick.” Thirty years ago, the agitation was stinted to remove pauper nurses from the workhouse infirmaries The sick poor were at tbst time ...

IN NEED OF A WIFE

... read from • tailor at IVorldrop, asking if the Guardians semi him a woman to be his site. Ile wrote you an inmate in the Workhouse as would suit me, one as you can recommend as a hou sleeper, one from 20 to :10 years of age. lf she suit me I shonld not ...

POOR LAW REFORM-

... la Loadon there are more people seeking assistance from the poor rates than hat been the case for many years. Moat of the workhouses are already lull, and if there comes that period of bad trade for svbich the Tarifi Reformers are ao eagerly longing it ...