... WORKHOUSE REFORM. A DEPUTATION from the Workhouse Visiting Society, introduced by the Earl of DEVON, had on Tuesday an interview with the President of the Poor-law Board, with the object of procuring a regular and competent medical inspection of workhouse ...

... WORKHOUSE DESTRUCTION. A iour twelve months ago we drew attention to a movement then on foot among certain poor-law unions in the Eastern Counties for practically destroying one-half the workhouses, under the plea of amalgamation. Nothing more has been ...

... anid the workhouse. All the arrangemnents are inane ley the local coitimittees. In formation is sent to themi that a chiid or childrein are ready to be boarded out. They find the foster-parents, i rc eive thie children, remove the workhouse clothes and ...

... arrangement in the workhouses. We have often insisted upon the fact that this is the source of all the evils of the present system. A workhouse as it now exists is at once a hospital for the sick, a refuge for the old, a workhouse for the able-bodied ...

... THE WORKHOUSE TEST. THE report of the Local Government Board for I 872 contains some valuable statistics of the comparative cost of relieving able-bodied paupers in and out of the workhouse. They are principally to be found in a letter from Mr. Doyle ...

... Council of the Metropolitan Poor Law Medical Officers' Association, upon the Report of Dr. Edward Smith on the Metropolitan Workhouse Infirmaries, has just been published. The substance of it is contained in the following passages :-With respect to the cubic ...

... WORKHOUSE A BUSES. \; had occasion lately to remark upon the singular theory which oppcars to govern our officials in regard to public abuses. They apparently consider that their duty may be summed up in two great conminmandments-to keep things quiet ...

... WORKHOUSE REFORM. THE deputation which yesterday waited upon Mr. Hardy put him in possession of information which wvill go far to settle the question how the proposed reform in workhouse infirmary wards ought to be carried out. In analyzing the report ...

... improved management and inspection of workhouses has been an immense and unexpected saving. The chairrntii of the new St. Pancras board of guardians, in his first annual report, just issued, announces that in that workhouse alone, while proHigacy, mismanagement ...

... LAMBETH WORKHOUSE. THE public has already learned through our columns how things are managed in the casual ward of Lambethl workhouse. A curious pendant to that picture is supplied in a correspondence which has just been laid before Parliament on the ...

... the workhouse is the only response which the unemployed and destitute receive from the magistrates when they ask for assistance or advice. It does not seem ever to strike these gentlemen of the bench that it is just possible that the workhouses and ...

... ALCOHOL IN THE WORKHOUSE. TIE guardians of St. George's Union, having heard that at Wrexham the administration of alcoholic stimulants to the indoor paupers had been Pholly discontinued, wrote to the guardians of that union to ascertain Whether they are ...