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... yard. with grass lawn and trees, for the old ladies’ sole use. It would be impossible to speak of the workhouse without a reference to the workhouse babies. There are about 50 of them, of all ages, from a few days up to a month old. The babies B R A a@» ...
... WORKHOUSE DISCIPLINE. At the South-Western Police Court, on Tuesday, Mary Husher, a homeless woman, was charged with breaking a window at the Wandsworth Workhouse. ‘George Allen, the night porter, said on Monday night prisoner applied for admission, but ...
... FESTIVITIES AT THE WORKHOUSE. The 1,200 inmates of the Wandsworth Union Workheuse spent a very happy day on Saturday, and if some of them were troubled with sad thoughts on lookm%ebackwards to times of affluence outside the House, the majority, at any ...
... SUDDEN DEATH IN THE WORKHOUSE. At Wandsworth Town Hall, on Friday, Mr. Troutbeck held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of William Hitchings, aged 63, an inmate of the Wandsworth Union Workhouse, who died suddenly in the institution ...
... A Workhouse Porter’s Prescription. James Findley, a man looking very ill, and who Wwas permitted to be seatod in the dock, was gharged, at. the South-Western Police-court, on Saturday, with breaking two panes of glass in the gecelving ward of the Wandsworth ...
... in ‘Deven and Cornwall and the London and South-Western Railway st at Nine Elms. e e CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE, The inmatcs ab Wandsworth Workhouse ¢ , an enjoyeble Christinas, thanks to the oje-rgyp& playeti {y the master and matron acd the s.aff, The ...
... visited ,norf':,;? worth Workhouse, where the infantil® more s for the first week is now shown to be 19 _ rr,v‘ that of the general population. Will 354 b me to say that Canon Curtis is mistake® ‘,ete%pef never visited his workhouse.. I was coim‘ 0¥ supplied ...
... FESTIVITIES AT THE WANDSWORTH WORKHOUSE. f Though most people prefer their own home, however poor and meagre, to the workhouse, there are many worse places, while at Christmas:time the inmates’ lot, if not exactly to be envied, is made a happy one. At ...
... fallen on evil days and have been obliged to seek sanctuary in the workhouse. The mending and making is done not only for the workhouse, but for the Tooting Home and the branch workhouse-in St. James’' -road. In the tailors’ shop are kept the men’s Sunday ...
... 3 B : e . C———— LIFE IN THE WORKHOUSE. John Barton, aged 62, an inmate of the Wandsworth Union Workhouse, was charged, at the South-Western Police-court, on Monday, with refractory conduct and breaking three panes of glass. Daniel Mullans, the labour ...
... 231 ; accommodated in wards at workhouse and temporary iron buildin%s at workhouse, 302.—Total, 1,199. The use of the wards at the workhouse for infirmary cases necessitated the boarding-out of inmates at the workhouses of other unions, so that when the ...
... THE BOROUGH NEWS CARE OF WORKHOUSE BABIES. DR. DODSON'S DEFENCE OF THE WANDSWORTH UNION. To the last meeting of the Wandsworth Guardians, Dr. Dodson, l:‘f\fiedica] Officer of the Workhouse, submitted a report on a letter which had appeared m the daily ...