... TOBACCO FOR WORKHOUSE. One of per we«k i« to be allowed all male inmates in the Pwllheli (Car- Workhouse. At the meeting of guardians at which this decision was reached, the clerk said was disregarding the Ministry's rejgulatione. David Jones, of Pwllheli ...

... BARONET IN THE WORKHOUSE Win. (iordon Macgregor, Bart., admitted into West Ham Workhouse yesterday as a pan per. ...

... SMALLPOX IN WORKHOUSES. A serious outbreak of smallpox was covered at Newca«tle Workhouse yesterday. Six cases were definitely diagnosed, and 27 con tacts were reported. The outbreak arose in one ward. An outbreak of smallpox has also occurred Sunderland ...

... COMPOSER IN WORKHOUSE. Leeds Workhouse harbouring in pathetic cirerrm stances man who up few years ago was a notable figure in musical circles. He is Alfred the pianist and composer, many of whose -works are very popular. Now, at the age of 67 he is stricken ...

... WORKHOUSE EPICURES. The Hitchin workhouse inmates are in future have a free dietary table. Hitherto, the dietary table, of a workhouse has informed the inmates on Mondav what they would have for dinner that day and each day of that week. The system ...

... 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 ...

... FIRES IN WORKHOUSES. In reply to Mr Llewellyn, Mr STANSFELD said that, in consequence of their attention having been called to the subject their inspectors in 1882, the Local Government Board issued a circular letter to the various Boards of Guardians ...

... The spectre of the workhouse BEFORE the state pension was introduced, the spectre of the workhouse haunted the old. They feared it more than death itself. Indeed, some literally starved themselves to death to avoid ever passing through its gates. Within ...

... 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 REVELATIONS. Thursday afternoon Dr Danford Thomas held an inquest at Marylebone lload, London, relative the death Mary Regan, aged Gl, an inmate of the Workhouse. It appeared from the evidence of some relatives tbat the deceased had been inmate ...

... THE WORKHOUSE OF THE WORLD. At a meeting of lical authorities Hull Saturday. it wasjreported that the gipsies at present encamped Huli, embarked at Corfu, but were Roumanian and Servian gipsies, members of a class wandering about Turkey. They stated that ...

... ABOLITION OF WORKHOUSES. The New Statesman, the Radical-Socialist sixpenny weekly review, commenting on Mr Lloyd George's Insurance Act speech the House Commons last week, when he dwelt on the horrors of workhouse in order make a point against the Unionists ...