... been sounded by the announcement of the so-called mysterious disease, which has of late manifested itself in various workhouses and infirmaries, a disease which hitherto appears not only to have caused the very greatest anxiety to the medical officers ...

... How far can Workhouses and ludastri.il Schools associated with the existing system of Public Elementary Schools ? A resolution was passed recommending Connells to sccnra uniformity control and inspection in the case of iudnstrial and workhouse, as well the ...

... John Bull:—There is a man in Stoke who probably suffers but to smile. Until recently he was earning 12/- a week at the workhouse labour yard, but the eagle eyes of the Revenue officers being upon him, they found that he owned a dog. They therefore asked ...

... written a letter to the Board of Guardians complaining of the conduct of some of the workhouse odicials in regard to th:: interment of a child which had died at the workhouse hospital a few days ago. The writer lutes that a day or two after the decease of ...

... of matters the adoption of the Poor-house test. Ireland, relief is given almost wholly in workhouses. In Scotland, only one in twenty our paupers are workhouses; in Ireland, out of fifty-three thousand paupers, not thousand were receiving out-door relief ...

... country would have bled and died scrapped—ruthlessly thrown aside; Spurned by those whose homes he helped to save— Reward: the workhouse and • pauper's grave. A. H. ...

... Ji,n ‘ a amen£ ted, was considered, and ordered for tldrd reading.—Adjourned. Thursday, June 27, WORKHOUSES. Lord asked whether the authorities of Workhouses are not bound by the law to admit all times all persons who app'y them for admission and if the ...

... —The C/are Jomr*al, alfoding to the flight the peasantry from that quarter, remark- that, but two brief years back, the workhouse* were Ailed repletion, whereas now they are almost literally de>«rte(l. save old people and young chi dren. who are incapable ...

... and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing, and of dying for it. SIR THOMAS MORE ( Utopia.) Passing by the workhouse (pleasantly named, because work cannot be done in it), I saw sitting on wooden benches, in front of their Bastille, some ...

... but they may provide by rule for the reduction of the benefits, in case of depression of the funds. If a member is io a workhouse or lunatic asylum at the charge of any Parish Council no sick pay shall he allowed, unless he has a wife or children or some ...

... WHISKY IN HOSPITALS. Mach of the whisky suppli.d in workhouse and other hospitals is very new, and is often largely composed of patent still whisky or sileut spirit. We perceive that Messrs W. A A. Gabe: bare entered into an arrangement with Mr John ...

... licv. The ere for labour comes from all quarters, the people, parts of Tipperary, absolutely refusing the shelter of the workhouse, and detoanding emplovment or oat-dww relief; while, rates, the dlfflcnltv of collecting them, at least bv the ordinary powers ...