... attracts an undue proportion of desperate cases. Under the head of A Workhouse Paradox the British Medical Journal 1 notices the fact that, whatever be the condition ot the workhouse infirmaries, they show as clean bills of satisfactory progress as incur ...

... purpose of going back to gaol, and several had stated that the gaol was a much better place than the workhouse. seemed to him that either the workhouse the prison treatment was not what it ought to be. He had noticed that it was the people who had been ...

... FIRE IN A WORKHOUSE. A tiro broke out on Wednesday in laundry at Hull Workhouse, doing considerable damage and ertaiing great alarm among the inmates. (Something went wrong in the drying chamber, and flames and great volumes of smoke burst through the ...

... YOUNG MEN IN WORKHOUSE. When three men named Radmall, Stevens, and Grant, aged 36, 31. and respectively, were charged at the North London Police-court with refusing to perform their allotted task at the Cornwallis road Workhouse, Upper Holloway, Mr. Tilley ...

... MUTINY IN A WORKHOUSE An extraordinary disturbance has occurred in the auxiliary building of the North Dublin Workhouse. The male inmates pro» urrd forms, nnd c’ambered over the wall into the women’s department. The officials ordered them leave, but they ...

... FOR THE BENEFIT THE WORKHOUSE INMATES. The members of the Beverley branch of the Voung Helpers’ League repeated the performance (as reported in our last week's issue) in the dining ball of the Workhouse ou Tuesday night, their audience being the inmates ...

... CONCERT WORKHOUSE On Wednesday evening an emertainmenl. arranged by Dr Mrs I was giv. u before the inmates the Workhouse-. mailings were all exceedingly well rendore Mr Bo»es’ caricature from bring especially of mirth. Many ol the -ng- were en. ored, ...

... SICK POOR IN WORKHOUSES. In answer to Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Hardy said he did not propose to legislate this yetr in reference to the treatment of the sick in the London workhouses, preferring to try what could be done first firiendlv cooperation with the guardians ...

... PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE WORKHOUSE. The minates of the Workhouse Accommodation Committee, which were read, stated that the committee recommended that the plans for the proposed extensions be sent up to the Local Government Board for their approval. The ...

... WORKHOUSES AND OUT RELIEF. The Commissioners recommend that the general workhouse abolished, and in its place substituted indoor relief in special institutions for children ; aged and infirm sick; able-bodied men and women ; vagrants; and feeble-minded ...

... WORKHOUSE SEIZED FOR DEBT. An amusing story comes from Schull, co. Cork. A bailiff, with company policemen, seised workhouse Tuesday the authority of decree obtained a contractor for money due. The bailiff seised the clerk's office and the books therein ...

... POISON TRAGEDY AT WORKHOUSE. In inquewt was hold on Saturday into the deaths of the master of Lews* Workhouse, FtederkA Bryan, forty-seven, ami Min* V. Riwdiworth, bookkeeper, girl of who wore found sitting in their chairs in the masters room dead. One ...