... means of providing for themselves, and, but for such a charity as this, left to die in the streets, or the sick ward of a workhouse. The Consumption Hospital, therefore, makes no ordinary appeal to the public generosity, and the example opportunely set ...

... a disposition to give tem- porary out-door relief, and refrain from applying the workhouse test from a fear that the applicants for relief may elect to go to the workhouse, and thereby throw a greater burden on the rates than if they merely received an ...

... 1815, when, by a statute known as East's Act, the workhouse test was now altogether removed. After the passing of this Act no one, not even an able-bodied labourer, was called upon to enter the workhouse, and justices were empowered to make money-grants ...

... a lad of the above tamte, who is intro- dttced to us at first under the roof of a pilot; and from thence is passed to a workhouse; after that to the outside of a Salisbury stage; then lodged in an aristocratic boarding school ; aniong a troop of gipsies ...

... labour, whose father, Sir Samuel Norwich, was for many years a lawyer in Kettering, whose grandfather died in the parish workhouse, and whose mother, poor, ignorant, and wholly uneducated, earns a livelihood by washing. The title of Norwich has disappeared ...

... officer of Eisteddfod, to see a child which a beggar-woman, calling at his house, requested him to come and remove to the workhouse, and in his band was a metal cup, from a travelling flask. The cup had contained whiskey, and some- thing else, which the ...

... Westminster Abbey, what have the Commissioners done t To avoid the additional outlay required to purchase an old and dilapidated workhouse, held upon a lease which has but sixteen years to run, the Commissioners have made the line crooked at its eastern extremity ...

... of gaining his bhecal, P;rom his own and others' experience, the author shows that there may be some resource beyond the workhouse for such a person. This essay is comprehensive and well digested, and it will nlot fail to be welcome to Dr Roberts's profession ...

... details to a happy end. The details are chiefly such as bring out views of English country life, of abuse in the management of workhouses and lunatic asylums, details of life on a farm, cottage scenes, riats and the calling out of yeomanry, with many matters ...

... comparison, for they are certainly free from those banes of workhouse schools dependent upon low vitality, sore eyes and eruptions of the skin. The evidence of the medical officers of the workhouse bears out this statement, for they add, the children in ...

... for an improved system of dis- pensary relief throughout the metropolis, and it was only in case it was not provided, and workhouses were not improved that it was ever intended by the Government or the House to give the exceptional powers which had since ...

... the wants of the people whom it relieves, instead of bluntly saying to all ?? is the workhouse; come into it as a permanent resident or a casual and submit to workhouse discipline, or stay away and starve. i The grand object of the Jewish system, says Dr ...