... mending meerschaum pipe. How mix graining colour, fairly light, to comb up windows and stair sides. How to obtain post of workhouse master or matron. What are the qualifications, duties, etc? ...

... distress, there being 10.000 persons receipt relief the city, or one pauper to every 23 persons m the population. In the workhouse there were inmates more than there was accommodation for. The ' people were sleeping in dozens the floors the wards. It was ...

... contribute, according to their ability, the support their grandchildren. This is only done when the grandchildren go the workhouse, and become a charge to the rates. . , , Next Kin.—“ Rowby.”—When * man dies intestate leaving a widow and children the widow ...

... Destructive Pauper,—Jeremiah Sampson, inmate the vagrant ward at the Fir Vale Workhouse, was charged with tear ing up his clothes.-Police-constable Wallis, who is stationed at the Workhouse, proved the case.—Ten days’ imprisonment. TUESDAY.— Before Mr. S. Roberts ...

... paper. the end he wais even satisfied with less ; you remember how easily satisfied he was. • Well, there was a man in the workhouse infirmary in whose case I had for some time taken great interest. The infirmary doctor is very young, and he admirer of mine”—he ...

... were turned into hospitals at the outset of the war, and wards were taken over at the Portsmouth Royal Hospital and the Workhouse Infirmary. In all these institutions, officially grouped under the title of the sth Southern General Hospital, an aggregate ...

... again the Plymouth Workhouse. The man was well known elsewhere, and the Master had communicated with other heads of workhouses in Devon. A few weeks later Jose turned up at Newton Abbot, and applied for admission into the workhouse; he w’as suffering ...

... Chairman of Committees in the House. reference to the notorious case of infant having been killed by overfeeding in Totnes Workhouse, Lord Barrington was informed that the matron had been censured. On the House of Commons re-assembling ou Monday after the ...

... Jimson s getting old, And so. one morning, he was told He’d got The Push. This last rebuff broke Jim son’s pndc. So to the workhouse oft he hiea, And in a-while, poor soul, he died. And “joined the crush. But, though no sympathetic wave Was present, there ...

... All the brothers are bound, a)6cording to their ability, to contribute towards their mother’s support. If she goes to the workhouse, the magistrates will make'an . order against everyone them. House Agent.—To “J. H. O.” No license, is required. Contract ...

... 19, Rnssell street, Downing street, Manchester. Fegg.—For information of Thomas write to Thomas Pegg, 47 Ward, the Union Workhouse, East Greenwich, S.E. Swallow. —For information of James Swallow, write to him 3, Ash Tree road. Rounds Green, Oldbury, near ...

... were alive.” A strange whim,” I said. I wonder— Oh, laughed the workhouse master, expect you are looking for romance. Well, perhaps there is some in his life, but masters of workhouses have take a more practical view of things. If you want to talk to ...