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LIFE IN A WORKHOUSE

... LIFE IN A WORKHOUSE. ' We get up at half -past six ; breakfast at seven.' says the old man. Hal-past seven we oome out or the dining-hall. Our breakfast consists tea and five ounces of bread and butter. We have dinner at twelve. About eleven I feel very ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1889
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 846 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIREMAN FOR FRE WORKHOUSE

... FIREMAN FOR FRE WORKHOUSE WiNT&D. 4,N THURSDAY TRR 28rn DAY OF MAY, 1691, THE BOARD OF GUARDIANS will appoint a thoroughly capable man to take charge of the Engine and Boilers at the Workhouse. and be entirely responsible for their proper care and management ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1891
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WORKHOUSE

... PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WORKHOUSE. Referring $o the proposed impmements in the Workhonee, the L.G.B. wrote stating that they were still of opinion that having regard to the magnitude of the works io question they shauld be carried out under tba ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1905
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 887 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

USBURN WORKHOUSE FIRE

... USBURN WORKHOUSE FIRE. On Thnrslay morning about seven o'clock what might have proved a very disastrous fire broke out in the Workhouse, and occasioned much alarm amongst the inmates. IS appears that the attention of one of tho nurses was arrested by ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1913
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LUROIN WORKHOUSE COOL•

... LUROIN WORKHOUSE COOL• At Lurgan Guardians on Thursday, the Clerk said he had been directed to write to Miss Agnes Agnew at Banbridge, who had been a former applicant for the position of cook-general in the Nurses' Home, to ask when she could come, and ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1926
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ARMAGH WORKHOUSE MASTER

... ARMAGH WORKHOUSE MASTER. A committee of Armagh GtiordianS, to whom a report of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Inspector was referred, stated on Tnesdny. witl► regard to An allegation that the workhouse mhster had shown neglect of duty, that there had been ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1923
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE RELIEF OF TRAMPS IN WORKHOUSES

... THE RELIEF OF TRAMPS IN WORKHOUSES. A local cotemporary, the Ballymoney Free Peru, before the Guardians of whose Union this subject was dismissed, has a few remarks so opposite to the state of affairs existing in the Coleraine Union that we make no apoiogy ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1863
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 920 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LISBURN WORKHOUSE HOSPITAL

... LISBURN WORKHOUSE HOSPITAL MEDICAL INSPECTOR'S REPORT. The Local Government Board has forwarded for the information and consideration of the Lisburn Board of Guardians a special report whioh they have received from their medical inspector (Dr. Bigger) ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1902
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE DOCTOR'S, PILLS

... WORKHOUSE DOCTOR'S, PILLS. la support of his application at the Dunmow (Essex) Board of Guardians for an increase of salary. Dr. Montague Tench, the medical officer to the workhouse, said he had had to meet an extraordinary demand for pill& and other ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1908
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ARMAGH WORKHOUSE AFFAIRS

... ARMAGH WORKHOUSE AFFAIRS. *Oa At h fortnigtoly meeting of Armagh Guardians on Tuesday—Mr. J. J. VV. Dunlop (chairman) presiding—the Nlaster reported that he hail received a letter Dearing the Armagh postmark enclosing Li. with a mite authorising him to ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1928
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WENT OF A NURSE FOR THE WORKHOUSE

... WENT OF A NURSE FOR THE WORKHOUSE. THE BOARD OF GUARDIANS of the Lurgan Union require a - NURSE for the Infirm Female and Lunatic Wards of the Workhouse at a salary of £l6 a year with rations and apartments. Application, with copies of Testimonials ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1894
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MAY CLOSE LISBURN WORKHOUSE

... MAY CLOSE LISBURN WORKHOUSE. There is not • man in the body of the house who could earn an honest day's wages, was the report of Dr. Murphy, medical officer to the Lamborn Guardians, in reel:goose to the Board's reqoest for a report showing the ag• and ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1917
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 326 | Page: 5 | Tags: none