... 1-3 per cent. ; 51,695 of these were males, of whom 11,268 were in the workhouse, and 40,427 were receiving out-door reUef, and the other 131,467 were females, 18,558 in the workhouse and 112,909 receiving out-door reUef. ChUdren under 16 ?? with able- ...

... Company ends the year with a debit balance of £2,800 odd. There will be weeping and wailing (says a con- tempory) in the workhouses this year. Currants are going to be scarce. There are only four tons this year against every five tons last year. This is ...

... destitute circumstances, and these few were volun- tarily reliev- d by their neighbours. Conse-riucntly there were neither workhouses nor poor laws in the island. Then the Sassenach invaded the island, and in his trail came pauperism and increased crime ...

... House of Industry, for the establishment we are introducing to the notice of our readers is neither more nor less than a workhouse, and the able-bodied juveniles and adults are all required to perform a certain amount of manual labour. Portions of the ...

... in Olympus, by E. C. Nugent: and a pleasant sketch in dialect, cc. titled. A Wise Woman of Olden Time. A visit to the workhouse is pourtrayed in an article Some of the Shipwrecked (Mary E. Mann), and th.re is an account of the visit of the Archr ...

... Birmingham workhouse, wa, m Monday committed for trial at the assizes mi a charge ol mn. -laughter. The prisoner had been brought np ,ii a coroner's warrant, charged with causing the d. ath of John Millard, an aged inmate ol tba workhouse, by violently ...

... cooking and laundry appliances, continue to be well adapted for tke requirements. As is tbe experience in most pre- sent-day workhouses, the sick and infirm form a large proportion of the inmates. There has been bot a slight increase in the number of inmates ...

... Barton Fitzgerald, E.A., aged 44. On the 14th ultimo, in Whitehaven, Mrs Jane Taggart, late matron at the Whitehaven Union Workhouse, aged 67. Bame day, at Villa Marina, the residence of her son, Mary, relict of the late Mr John Noble, of Clifton, Westmoreland ...

... landlords would be paid, and €OO people would be énabled to make a fresh start in life; otherwise thev would have to go to the workhouse. Then he wonld suggest that another £20,000 be applied in granting Old Age- Pensions to 1,500 people over 70 years old. This ...

... discharges) from prison, or who has lost her character from immorality, has, at any rate, a right to claim food and shelter in a workhouse. In this Island no such refuge exists for her. and, if she is unable to obtain a mitnation or honest work, she is forced ...

... chairman of a Board of Guardians in England, and he found some people thought it very hard to have to go into the ordinary workhouse. In Douglas there was besides the ordinary poor house. a House of Indus- try, which was an asylum for aged people who were ...

... Fish, who was brought up at the pobce-court on Monday, was formerly a parish apprentice. He was taken out of the Blackburn Workhouse by Mr Chadwick Bramwell, with whom he served his apprenticeship. The prisoner's old master was on the jury, and the discoveries ...