... With regard to in:lividual workhouses, it appears that in the St. Pancras workhouse, with an average of 1,867 pauper inmates, £687 Gs. id. was spent in intoxicating liquors during the year. In the West Derby (Lancashire) workhouse £755 2s. Bd. was similarly ...

... INTOXICANTS AT WORKHOUSES. Illegal supply,—At a Congress bet I at Ramt.gate on Tuesday, a paper was read on intoxicants in Workhouses, in the course of which it was shown that the Workhouse Drink Bill lal hen reduced from £B2 000 to £32,000, sa•ing £50 ...

... able-bodied inmates of the workhouse. The deputation pointed out that the ratepayers upon the occasion of the last audit of the parochial accounts had objected to the expenditure for drink given to paupers in health employed in the workhouse, as contravening the ...

... MISERS IN THE WORKHOUSE. Two instances have just come to light of comparetively well-to-do persons taking refuge in the workhouse. John Cameron, a Scotsman, has just died in the Toxteth workhouse, and when stripped preparatory to being put in his coffin ...

... WORKHOUSE DISCLOSURES. A report, disclosing a shocking state of things, has been presented by a committee to the Portiunna Guardians. The women's dormitory and nursery of the workhouse were described as being in a filthy condition. The hospital suffers ...

... WORKHOUSE PROSECUTIONS. At the Clerkenwell police-court on Saturday Johanna Murray, an ironer, was charged with disorderly conduct and with using bad language while an inmate ef the St. Pancras workhouse. The labour master stated that Murray was a few ...

... WORKHOUSE BOYS. A Chairman of Guardians writes to The Times : Bir,—Will you allow me to call attention to a difficulty which I am afraid must be commonly felt by th se who are interested in finding employment for workhouse boys? In the union in which ...

... before the Board. He left the workhouse and went to a Working Boys' Home in Whitehead's - grove, Chelsea.—Prisoner cross-examined the boy as to why he had not been prosecuted before, and said that he remained in the workhouse long after the alleged assaults ...

... THE WORKHOUSE TREAT. The annual treat to the inmates of the Halifax Workhouse was given on Monday, to which 440 sat down. The usual preparations were made, a notion of which can be gathered from ttie provision of 6001b$ of beef, one cwt. of suet, one ...

... THZ SCHOOL AT THE WORKHOUSE. Mr. Enema Bottomley (Barkisland) moved, in accordance with a notice which he had given at the last meeting, that the workhouse school should be closed on and after the 25th March next, and that the children be educated at ...

... A WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. Some serious allegations have been made against workhouse officials at an inquest held at Foleshill Workhouse, Warwickshire, touching the death of Ephraim Williamson, a miner, aged 58 years, who died in that institution. The ward ...

... SKILLED LABOUR IN THE WORKHOUSE. The House Committee recommended that the duties of firer-up be given to an outside man instead of to a pauper as heretofore, and that the wages be 20s per week.— Hanson moved an atnenitnent rejecting the proposal, which ...