... CREED REGISTER IN WORKHOUSES. On the Ist of January a general order, issued the Poor-law Board to the several boards of guardianB, came into operation, prescribing creed register to be kept in all workhouses. By it the workhouse roaster—or, in the event ...

... EFFECT OF WORKHOUSE OARS At a meeting of the Hampstead Board of Guardians, Dr. E. Claude Taylor, medical officer of the workhouse, reported that the patient in the observation ward on whose behalf he obtained permission at the previous meeting to wear ...

... A VISCOUNTESS IN THE WORKHOUSE. At a meeting of the Camberwell Guardians, the Berk reported that he had received a letter, signed Viscount de Stainer, dated from the Queen's-park Estate, with reference to a young woman named Beatrice Pedgrift, who ...

... WORKHOUSE INMATES' PROTEST. Inmates of the Festiniog (North Wales) Workhouse have held a mass meeting to pro- test against certain statements made by . the Rev. Roberts, a local Methodist minister. Eighty inmates attended, and passed the fol. lowing ...

... FIRE IN A WORKHOUSE. A fire broke out on Wednesday in a laundry at Bull Workhouse, doing considerable damage and cresting great sierra among the 6(t) inmates. Something went wrong in the drying chamber, and flames and great volumes of smoke burst through ...

... FROM WEALTH TO WORKHOUSE. A life of strange vicissitudes has just ended at Grimsby . , Robert Day Ifelhuish, once the pmt's principal fish merchant, dying a pauper in the workhouse. Going to Grimsby as a poor lad, Mr. Mel. buish soon gained • prominent ...

... WORKHOUSE DOCTOR'S PILLS. In 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 pills and other medicine ...

... RADIUM FOR A WORKHOUSE. Dr. Holder, Medical Officer to the Scu'costes (Hull) Baird of Guardians, on Tuesday made the minimal request to the Board to expend 2600 in the purchase of radium for the treatment of cancer in paupers. He mentioned the case of ...

... ALTERATION AT UNION WORKHOUSE •r`HE GUARDIANS of the Poor of the Newport Pagnell Union are prepared to receive TENDERS for the following Structural Alterations at their Union Workhouse, viz : The construction of 'three New Windows in the East Wall of ...

... PBISON v WORKHOUSE! A lady has sent the following letter to leading journal for publication As from time time you direct attention tho minugemeut our workh ami prisons, I lt-ae* bring under your notice subjoined dialogue, which place few week* since at ...

... WORKHOUSE RAT PLAGUE. tramp who woe admitted to the Windsor Workhouse ;sae attacked in hie cell br three large rate, and was so alarmed that be insisted on leaving the oell, to which be would cot return, Other similar events have occurred recently. in ...

... FIRE AT A WORKHOUSE. On Sunday the 300 inmates of the Chipping Norton (Oxford) workhouse had just retired for the night when the alarm of fire was given. The local brigade were quickly on the scene, but their efforts were handicapped by the shortage of ...