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THE FIRE AT LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE

... at Audley-street` is 294 feet. I suggested a larger main ; also at 7water tower in the workhouse. The tower would have to be 75 feet from the ground of the workhouse. I suggested this to thle vestry. Certain secondary works suggested by me ivere casried ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1862
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2172 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE

... ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE. Yesterday, at a meeting of the directors and guar- diaso of the pior of the parish nf St. Pancros, beld in the Vebtry-hall, King'E-road, Canmdec-towc, HENay FARcER, Esq. ?? churchwarden, in the chair, Mr. HIBBARD, clerk to the board ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1856
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1660 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE WORKHOUSE MEDICAL SYSTEM

... THE WORKHOUSE MEDICAL SYSTEM. aot ?? DEPUTATION TO THE 0000-LAW fl2ARD. Oa Ol tonday afternoon adep utation from the oonmrittee ord o. tbe Temperance Hygienic Hospital waited, by ap- p pointment, upon the Earl of Devon, the President of tn- the Poor-law ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1868
Newspaper: Illustrated Police News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 997 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MORE WORKHOUSE HORRORS

... NORE WORKHOUSE EHORROS. [From a Correspondont.] The pest-houses 4f Clerkenwell are as revoltingly unfit for sleeping-places as when we commented on them last. On Sunday evening forty men and women were crammed into wards with nominal accommodation for ...

Published: Sunday 11 March 1866
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1254 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WORKHOUSE CHRISTMAS DEPRAVITY

... a WORKHOUSE CHRISTMAS DEPRATITY. I : A_+ - , my Yesterday morning I happened to look in upon it my friend hardknat. Hardknut is of the grocer persuasion; he is a strongly pronounced political ,I economist of the pitiless school, and may be de- bt scribed ...

Published: Tuesday 26 December 1871
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4055 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MORE WORKHOUSE DISCLOSURES

... revealed by the next official investigation of Workhouse abuses. Instead of being homes for the houseless and destitute, asylums for the infirm and suffering, and harbours of refuge for age and poverty, our Workhouses, if we may take St. Pancras as a type of ...

Published: Sunday 24 February 1867
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1280 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

NEW PRISONS IN WORKHOUSES

... NEW PRISONS IN WORKHOUSES. UNFOR.TUNATE Paupers which rebel against a mainte- nance of Is. 31d. per week, the standard set up by the Commissioners, are to be cast into prisons built in the workhouse-vards. At St. Pancras workmen are now em- ploved in ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1835
Newspaper: Poor Man's Guardian
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WORKHOUSES AND LOCAL TAXATION

... Govcrnment grant of so muntch per head for every 1)2uper inmate of a pioperly managed workhouse. In this way the guardians woLu11 he temptld to apply the workhouse test by the fact that in every cse IT' Whkclh they did so they w ould only be saddled with ...

Published: Thursday 28 January 1875
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1057 | Page: 11 | Tags: News 

THE TREATMENT OF THE WORKHOUSE POOR

... have had serious complaints made to me in writing relating to their treatment in the Lambeth workhouse, by a poor inmate named Brewer; from Lewisham workhouse, by a poor man, named Cook; from Blean Union-house, by a poor man,: named Gibson ; from North ...

Published: Sunday 08 August 1852
Newspaper: Reynolds's Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OUR WORKHOUSE ABOMINATIONS

... OUR WORKHOUSE ABOMINATIONS. The experiences of the amateur casual of the * Pall Mall Gazette are bringing to light a series of London workhouse abominations. The English public are deeply indebted to the conductors of the Lancet for the fearless- ...

Published: Sunday 04 February 1866
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 795 | Page: 6 | Tags: News