... Ashton-under-Lyne Workhouse; and, if so, whether he could state the result of such inquiry. Mr Burns (President of the Local Government Board) said that one boy received six and another four strokes from a birchrod for absconding from the workhouse. The Workhouse ...

... WORKHOUSE ON FIRE. Damage estimated at .£30,000 was caused (says telegram today) by a Are which destroyed the block of Longford Workhouse, containing all the officials' apartments, last night. The inmates’ quarters were saved. No one wus injured, alarm ...

... WORKHOUSE INFANTS. WHY THE MOBTAUTY IS HEAVY. Tho mortality among infanta in Pcor-lR* institutions is between two and three time great among infants born outside tbt workhonae.—Minority Report of the Poor-Uv Commission. This statement ia accepted the ...

... WORKHOUSE ROMANCE, romantic story of workhouse girl was friidod the tneeimg of Ui* U 8t Genrgo'*, EHoovar-squera, yesterday. After four or hv© as a May Thomas was by Honjui Catholic aatiionUaß. who fiwwred bring l.tr their religion. the of the Oaerdians ...

... A HAUNTED WORKHOUSE. As the result of proposal to repair the female tramp ward at the Hemel Hempstead Workhouse, it has transpired that the ward is supposed to be haunted. Weird noues are said to be heard at night, and females the road *’ warn one another ...

... A WORKHOUSE BIOT. Half dosen able-bodied pauMj-s appeared Sheffield Polios Court yestentay charged with refractory conduct Early that morning they were sent out with gang to sweep snow, hut finding the weather not to their liking declined to proceed. ...

... FUNDS IN A WORKHOUSE. Newton Abbot Workhouse u provided with three pianos iso the Visiting Committee reported yesterday). They have been provided public subscription, (me has been placed in women’s infirmary, another in the men’s Infixmary. and the third ...

... Abolition or General Workhouses. Perhaps the most radical change announced m the report under the section of methods of assistance is the abolition general workhouses and the provision of separate institutions appropriate to the following classes of ...

... A WORKHOUSE ROMANCE IN THE MORTH. Thera was wary romantic revelation the meeting of Brampton (near Carlisle) Board of Onardiaas meeting yeetetday. An old woman, Betty Hetherington, said she was in her ninetieth year, and had been in the workhouse tor ...

... FERE AT A WORKHOUSE. A tic broke out ia one of the wing* «( the new workhouse infirmary at Warwick Saturday afternoon, and, despite the efforts of the Warwick and Leamington Fire Brigades, the outbreak was not got under until the interior and roof were ...

... NEW WORKHOUSE BUILDING AT BLACKBURN. THE OPENING CEREMONY. Yesterday a pavilion tor which haa been built an addition to the Blackburn Workhouse Infirmary at a cost of something like £ll,OOO, was opened by Mis Bury, the president of the Infirmary Committee ...

... WORKHOUSE ROT’S CLAIM. A boy named George 8. Lovell, aged 10, now la Chelmsford Workhouse, asserts that is the heir to fortune £B.OOO. The police found the ted roaming about the street* the village Ingatretone. He yesterday that hit father before be died ...