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... And no Workhouse. Perhaps the most valuable information that I be imparted to the vast majority of those who meiht I • exchanging half a loaf (possibly) for no bread (probably) in any portion of the vast semi-continent which lies between the mighty Zambesi ...
... INTOXICANTS IN WORKHOUSES. At a e,ongress, held at Ramagate recently. a paper was read on Intoxicants in Workhouses, in the course of which it. was shown that the workhouse drink bill bad been reduced from £82,000 to £32,000, thus saving £50.000 per ...
... ALCOHOL IN WORKHOUSES. (From the British Medical Journal, August 5.) We refer again to the question of alcohol in workhouses, which is again exciting_public interest. A guardian has drawn attention, in the Times, to the expenditure on alcohol in various ...
... LIQUOR IN WORKHOUSES. EAST PnxtrroN.—The following excellent letter he been addreaded to the medical officer of the East Preston Union:— Local Government Board, Whitehall, 8.W., 20th May, 1882. Sir,—l am directed by the Local Government Board to state ...
... bringing them to the workhouse. As another proof of the uselessness of these drinks, I may state that now for more than a year no intoxicating liquoni have been used either by officials or i tttt mites of this. one of the largest workhouses in London.—Yours ...
... LIQUOR IN WORKHOUSES. Bi,—ln 1892 the Local Government Board called the special attention of Guardians to the great difference of expenditure in respect of intoxicating liquors for the indoor poor in different districts. At that time, the year ending ...
... INTOXICANTS IN WORKHOUSES. The usual weekly meeting of the Sheffield Board was bold at the Workhouse. Kelham-atreet, Aid. (chairmo7lpreeldhq. The members present were: Messrs. Harkworth, J. W. Wilson, lloyland. Bacon. Craven, Hovey. Bulto; .) m. J. Wilson ...
... AT THE WORKHOUSE GATE. MAUY FORRESTER. stootl by the groat atone building; I wandered there to wait, To watch the people thronging, Clow to the Wolkhouse gate:— Solite of th , gn old and feeble. Who4e lives were o'er: of them yourl and healthy: All of ...
... BEER IN WORKHOUSES. SIR,—If the members of any local governing body should be the pronounced enemies of the drink traffic, surely it is those who act in the capacity of Poor Law Guardians. For they see, as few others do, some of the fearful results of ...
... STIMULANTS IN WORKHOUSE& Sir,—ln a provincial newspaper war on the burning question of alcohol in workhouses, as has happened frequently before, a statement of mine ( Stimulants in Workhouses, p. 39, 337, Strand) that in certain workhouses the illegal ...
... ALCOHOL IN WORKHOUSES. At the weekly meeting of the Salford Board of Guardians, held on October id at the Workhouse, Eccles New Road, Mr. T. Dickins in the chair, there being also present Messrs. Oldham, Roper, Damien, Milner, Taylor, Biassing. ton, Mottram ...
... CONSUMPTION OF INTOXICANTS IN WORKHOUSES. The Ci.r.itu, NI r. Etlgill, of the Cherltim, Manchester, Doan! of 4lttanlions, last week vaned the attention of the Ward' to the fact that during the there fool Is','., in the newspapers a very brief alistnket ...