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... WORKHOUSE VISITING. ±o my mind the chief use of visitors to workhouse and hospital is to bring in with them a whiff of out- side air, for which reason I discourage as far as possible conversations on ailments and grievances both at tha workhouse and tbe ...
... WORKHOUSE DIETS. The Local Government Board has at last dealt in a fairly complete manner with the workhouse dietaries, and has issued a general order to all Boards of Guardians in England and Wales, to- gether with an explanatory circular, in which the ...
... CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE. Cbosl&hd Moob. — Tbe inmates of this workhonse spent a moßt enjoyable time on Christmas Day, thanks to the ample arrangements maiia for their entertainment and the kind gilts of a number of generous donors. In the morning all ...
... WORKHOUSE ROMANCES. Some curious revelations as to the former status of various inmates of London workhouses are made from time to time. In one workhouse, at the age of 47 only, is a man who, on attaining the age of 21, became the possessor of over £30 ...
... WORKHOUSE REVELATIONS Some startling statements concerning the condi- tion of paupers in workhouse infirmaries have been made to the Peterborough Board of Guardians. Mr. Dean, a Guardian, complained that patients approaching convalescence were compelled ...
... STIMULANTS IN WORKHOUSES A fortnight ago the Leek Guardians passed a resolu-.ion prohibiting alcoholio stimulants at Lsek Workhouse, but on Wednesday they rescinded it, in consequence of a letter received fram the medio tl officer, tn which ha pointed ...
... AVERSION TO THE WORKHOUSE. On Tuesday an inquest was held at tbe Court House, St. Pancras, as to the death of Ann Barber, a widow, 64 years of age, who died in the workhouse on Friday. Deceased for many years had occupied alone a small top room at 51 ...
... THE WORKHOUSE LIBRARY. The days are so long, sir, with nothing to do, replied the infirmary patient, •• otherwise I find myself very comfortable. '• But surely you can read, and pass the time that way '? Yea, I can read, and once a week I get a ...
... WORKHOUSE GARDENS. In reading the reports on the country workhouses furnished by our Commissioner we have frequently noted incidental allusion to the large amount of ground cultivated by the Guardians. As acres and acres of kitchen gardens seem to surround ...
... WORKHOUSE NURSES At the Sheffield Sessions, last Thursday, one Mary Anne Bennett was charged with an act of almost inconceivably horrible cruelty towards a little boy named Branen, in the Rotherham Union, of which institution Bennett likewise was an inmate ...
... reduce the consumption of alcoholic stimulants in workhouses. Hardly has the echoes ol the Poor Law Medioal Offioers' discussion, during tbe Liverpool meeting, died away ere in two important workhouses action has been taken, founded en the resolutions ...
... ALCOHOL IN WORKHOUSES It is a popular idea that in almost every form of illness alcoholic stimulants are either necessary or desirable, and in workhouses generally they are very freely prescribed. There is, however, at least one workhouse in the kingdom ...