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... of residents in the workhouse, is very markedly reducing, if it has not already to a large extent abolished, the shrinking aversion which the thought of such residence formerly inspired. The question is asked, then, whether workhouses are not too comfortable ...
... paupers of suitable ago would be free to leave the workhouse and claim their pension but could not claim it while resident there. If they reinsio iii, or if after leaving they should return to the workhouse, their pension would pus to the Guardians in co ...
... betore a Coroner's Jury sitting on the body of a person who had died in the workhouse, and during her evidence a juryman chanced to ask her,— _ How are you used in the workhouse ? The witness replied, very well ; adding, after a pause, but I work very ...
... 131, Hope Street, Leigh, at present an inmate of the Workhouse, said she was a single woman employed on the pit brow. She was the mother of Frank Norris. aged 22 days, who was born at the Workhouse and died there on Wednesday. He was a healthy child until ...
... case under consideration. A widow, who had been receiving pour relief for many years, and whose husband had died in the workhouse, had been in the habit of sleeping upon a bag of gold. Wheu poured out on a tea tray the bag was found to contain £l5O. The ...
... months. Proseat weiv.ht 9 stone 21b. Fed principally isn water gruel. idea been separated from his wife and childrert It) the workhouse, and occasionally placed in solitary coi , fl:tu ! merit for complaining - of hunger. Etriploynzent, breaking stones. _ ...
... to the London press to say that some of the men are in very needy circumstances and two of them were brought out of the workhouse. He is anxious to raise such a fund as will provide them with, at least, food and shelter out of the Union for the rest of ...
... making the labour of the poor remonerative, is worthy of consideration. The extrAct is as follows :— There is M. least one workhouse jut Eng!and at pre sent which is in a fair way to Leconte a commercial The poorhouse authorities of Spalcing purchase old ...
... THE POOH IN ENG. LAND. Wiselip the following from an English Newspaper The almost heroic attitmie of the poor toward the workhouse—their sufferings rather than enter it, and the misery they will -endure sooner than be beholden to it for any kind of re ...
... committee to recommend a better system of audit for municipal accounts. His touching speech to the inmates of Battersea Workhouse on Christmas Day will not be forgotten. For twenty years he advocated the calling up of the militia in the period of the ...
... The Last Resource. Mr. Edward Terry, says the Playgoer. once in the kindness of his heart took • girl out of the workhouse to train as • servant. But she was altogether hopeless, and was continually breaking plates. dishes and everything she laid hands ...
... nervous system. At an ordinary meeting of the Islington Board of Guardians it was stated that among the pauper inmates of the workhouse were three medical men and a dispenser. ...