... RATS AT EXETER WORKHOUSE. The Master of Exeter City W«rkhonso_ recently repotted serious inroad of rats throughout the building. The Budding Committee interviewed a Mr. Henderson, rat exterminator,” who guaranteed that he would make a complete clearance ...

... A WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. Some serious allegations have been made against workhouse officials at inquest held roieshill Workhouse, Warwickshire, touching the death of Ephraim Williamson, miner, aged years, who died in that institution. The ward in which deceased ...

... that should saddled on the ratepayers. Mr Grills, the master ©f the workhouse, handed the Board a letter which he had received from the girl's uncle since she bad been in the workhouse, stating that he had obtained situation for her, which she could go ...

... WORKHOUSE INMATES. OBJECT TO TINNED MEAT. On Sunday the wrakbooee officiaU provided meal tomed mmt, milk, and jam lor the iMtefan. Itom fatty refused to eat it. We mpeoiaHy meat, and one pauper, too gemmi “end wffl not eat it. Wo wwit BnggfcSst. We aim ...

... WORKHOUSE SC AND All The sentence of an inmate of Birmingham workhouse to two months’ hard labour for assaulting tramp-master with a shovel has bad a curious sequel. Fifty inmates have signed a protest, which they assert that the tramp-master was an old ...

... WORKHOUSE GOLI'EN WEDDING. An unusual even has just taken place in the Workhouse at Heading. An inmate, named Edwoid Hague, seventy-three years ...

... WORKHOUSE DIETARIES AN OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM, The Local Government Board have issued a memorandum replying various communications ■addressed to them by Boards of Guardians relative the Workhouse Regulation (Dietaries and Accounts) Order. With the explanations ...

... ENTERTAINMENT AT TOTNES UNION WORKHOUSE. Shrough the kindness of Mr. and Ura. Willis, the girls attending the Totnea Board School gave very pleasant evening’s'entertaioment the inmates on Wednesday evening last when the following programme was gone through ...

... ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT TOTNBS WORKHOUSE. On Sunday evening inmate of Totnes Workhouse, named Edward Morris, 67 years of age, attempted suicide at the Workhouse by cutting his throat with a razor, At tea time he was missed from the ward in which he was, ...

... THE SMALL-POX IN KINGSBRIDGE WORKHOUSE. Robert Scott, who is snfferiug from small-pox in Kmgsbridge Workhouse, is baker, 61 years of age, and a native of Stamford. According to his own account bfe had been under treatment for two months at Exeter for ...

... ASSAULTING A WORKHOUSE OFFICIAL. Some licensing businet-s having been transactedthe case of tiamlyn v. Tozer was called. Tms the matter which had brought so many people court. But the case was only partially heard. Complainant, George Hamlyn, gardener ...

... IRISH NAMES FOR WORKHOUSE CHILDREN. proposal was made at North Dublin Guardians’ meeting on Wednesday that in all children christened in the institution, givdn Irirh names, such, names entered Irish characters and in the Irish form on the register. Mr ...