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... GIGANTIC WORKHOUSE. The magnificent palatial-looking structure at Barnhill, to be used as tbe Glasgow Barony parish poor's house, when completed, will form the largest inhabitable building in Scotland. This great mass of building is quadrangular in form ...
... CATHOLIC CHILDREN IN SCOTCH WORKHOUSES. The following is the conversation that took place 011 this subject in the House of Lords on Thursday evening :— The Earl of Wicklow presented a petition from two persons, representing themselves to be near relations ...
... FLOGGING OF SICK PAUPERS IN BOLTON WORKHOUSE. aSe atrocio,M cruelty, perpetrated in the Workhouse at Bolton, is now the round of the Press, and exciting everywhere feelings of unutterable abhorrence. We refer to the death of John Rothwell, which there ...
... Literature from a Workhouse.—A few months since it was decided by majority of the guardians of Welsh Union not to appoint regular chaplain to the h ruse, and the spiritual duties have since been performed by various ministers of the town. The following ...
... The other day, the Board of Guardians of Bethnal- Green Workhouse engaged investigating a charge preferred against the master of the workhouse by two of the inmates, to the eftect that he had struck both them with his fist, and kicked one of them the ...
... both narrowly escaped suffocation. Not only was the workhouse destroyed, but a Church immediately adjoining caught fire, and, before it could be extinguished, the Church was completely gutted. The Workhouse buildings are insured in the Royal Exchange Insurance ...
... IRELAND. Workhouse Furniture—Curious Case.— S. G. O. one of his letters to the Times on The Condition of the West of Ireland, gives the following :— passing; through the different wards, &c, of the Ballina workhouse, I observed the initials S. Cr ...
... IRELAND. There are no fewer than two hundred and thirty thousand men shut up in the workhouses in Ireland. Nearly seven thousand paupers are at present in the Tralee workhouse. The magistrates of Dnblin have announced a fine of 10s on drivers of cabs and cars ...
... the Peasantry upon a Workhouse.—On Wednesday, a large body of people, numbering about five or six thousand, arrived in Listowel, shouting out Bread or blood, and proceeded in the greatest state of excitement to attack the Workhouse, with the intention ...
... wretch am I! And how, and when, and where I can, I feed, and lodge, and lie. And I must to the Workhouse go, If better may not be ; Ay, //, indeed! The Workhouse ?No !— The Gaol, —the Gaol for me. There, shall I get the larger crust, The warmer house-room ...
... date upwards of 50 of these have proved fatal. Cholera has appeared in the Workhouse Armagh. There are at present 34 casesunder treatment. The total cases in the Cork Union Workhouse were total deaths, 28; discharged cured, 24 under treatment, 28. Number ...
... while the number relieved in workhouses has'increased from 208,526 to 236,552. At the same time it is to be kept in view that the aggregate expenditure has been reduced from 552,626 to 355,199, while the mortality in the workhouses has fallen from 8.9 to 5 ...