... WORKHOUSE. Old Jock Woodhouse, once of the Life Guards' Band, and a State trumpeter, has died in his ninetieth year in Windsor Workhouse. It is fitting that he should lie in the cemetery overshadowed by the barracks in which, time out of number, he had ...

... WORKHOUSES. INQIIIIIETL—Workhouses were first erected in land in 1723. Previous to this date, it had customary to relieve the able-bodied poor at their own homes. REGISTRATION OF BIRTH. PARENT.—Registration of birth answers all purposes of baptism, as ...

... Workhouse An extraordinary story is reported from the Bermondsey Union which should give the overtaxed ratepayers occasion for reflection. There is an individual in the workhouse who pays the Guardians ss. 3d. a week for board and lodgings, or about one-third ...

... In the Workhouse. Another centenarian is George Kent, who: reached the age of He, and iS an inmate of Eltham Workhouse. He is veil, • • , 4 4 s • mum deaf, but notwithstanding old age is able to read without the aid of glasses, and hie voice is strong ...

... LUNATICS IN WORKHOUSES. MEMORIAL FROM THE MANCHESTER GUARDIANS. This afternoon, at the fortnightly meeting of Manchester Board of Guardians, Mr. Jenner Fust, Local Government Board inspector, was present, and • i 0 the course of some remarks on the inspection ...

... WORKHOUSE ? Whenever the men of Britain are told that their King and country need them they are assured that the women and children they leave behind will be well looked after. Unhappily, however, the treatment meted out to soldiers wives is not of the ...

... WORKHOUSE At yesterday's meeting of the Redruth Board of Guardians Mr. E. Penns moved that %he of boxing gloves in the workhouse be discontinued. . He considered. he said, that there were some things in which boys should not be trained, and reason why ...

... • In workhouse first meeting with my i husband was n strange circumstances. I was invited by the master of the Saddleworth (Yorkshire) workhouse to play the piano for a concert to be given by volunteer artists to the inmates. I had never spent Christmas ...

... TQ TO THE WORKHOUSE! Demonstration by 300 Oldham Unemployed. EF DEMANDED. Deputation to Het Board of Over 300 unemployed of Oldham marched from the market place to the union workhouse this morning to demand relief. The crowd was quite orderly, but the ...

... WIGAN'S WORKHOUSE. The Wigan Board of Guardians yesterday dis cussed the questio 1 the provision of a new wotkhouse at Billinge, but nothing was done, pending deputation from the Corporation to the Local Government Board with respect to joint action. ...

... WORKHOUSE BURGLARY. FARM LABOURER S ALLEGED CONFESSION. Isaac Howarth, farm labourer, aged I thrtveicht, was Tuesday, Blackburn, committed for trial at Preston Sessions charged with Ribchester Workhouse last Jun-. where little before midnight, as described ...

... WORKHOUSE BLAZE. Fourth Attempt to Burn Down Building. ...