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... collecting the money. They consider that pauper labour on a large scale in workhouses should not be carried on in any metropolitan workhouse, and that the employment of workhouse inmates on machinery should be avoided, resort being bhad to purely manual ...
... of waste food in the workhouse. The proposals include a free table as regards bread all round, the inmates to take what they require, instend of being served with a regulation guantity. With regard to the children in the workhouse, there is to be u free ...
... CASE. | Workers in the Master's vineyard are not always successful, The Rev. Heathcote Smith, chaplain of | the Brighton workhouse and infirmary, writes :“ We | have here a elergyman of over () years of age,sent us | from the eounty hospital. He is a widower ...
... tary has visitedvarious workhouses and reported on their condition and methods of administration and treatment of patients. Aceordinfi to our contemporary London, Mr. Cbaplin himseif will pay & round of visits to the workhouses. L Twesty-rive per cent ...
... to controvert this notion. In reply to a question addressed to 279 workhouse medical officers, * Under what circum. stances are alcoholic liquors allowed to the inmates of the workhouses under your contro! ? ¥ 244 answers were received, from which it appears ...
... ” John Neal said, after a use, “will vou have me? 1 den’t want to go to Sx::a infantry, and I dou’t want to sleep in tfi: workhouse if I can help it; and there doesn’t seem much altermtive. ...
... recently beem issued as a hh-mh:ynrpor relating to the number of sick, bedridden, aged and infirm peu in each workhouse and separate workhouse fl-q in England and Wales, and giving information as to the character of nursing arrangements in each establishment ...
... nftodo if possible. will bring or send a person from the workhouse in half an gonr The child’s future can be arranged afterwards.” CHAPTER X. SENT TO THE WORKHOUSE, Tus nurse from the workhouse duly presented her« self and delivered up her endenfia!n—not ...
... KENIVES AND FORKS FOR PAUPERS. The refusal of the Chester Losid of Guardians to ‘allow the workhouse inmates the uso of knives and forks, except for Christmas dinner, again came up for discussion at the last Board meeting over a very sharp letter from ...
... A MARVEL OF THRIFT. Louis Moore, an old man, has died in the Richmond (Surrey) Workhouse, leaving £66 and a lesson of remarkable thrift, LS S He became an inmate in 1800, and a few yeara later was made gatekeeper at three shillings weekly. He apparently ...
... late and never-to-be-forgotten grandfather.” WORKHOUSE ROMANCES. Some curious revelations as to the former status of various inmates of London workhouses are brought to light from time to time. In one workhouse, at the age of 47 only, is a man who, on attaining ...
... Joeeph William Moulder, who had accumulated over £l&l) worth of rropefly in his diniy squalid attic, died in the {olborn Union Workhouse, and the inguest concernw his niserable end was held on Saturday by Dr. Wynn Westcott. Moulder was 70 years of age. He was ...