... the present congested state of the Workhouse. His view. however, was that this would be better achieved by giving outdoor relief in the case of aged respectable people, in preference to retaining them in the Workhouse. Dr H. SMITH, seconding, protested ...

... whether the workhouse governor should not be sent for trial for criminal neglect. As it was, he was open to the severest censure.—The jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes, but added there was great neglect on the part of the workhouse governor ...

... concert in the workhouse be accepted ; that the clerk be directed to advertise for tenders for the materials and fixing of two sets of iron staircase at the frent of and outside the old men's and old women's dormitories in the workhouse, from the top room ...

... held on Wednesday at the Workhouse, Mr. S. T. Riggs (chairman) presiding. The Finance Commiitee reported that there was a balance in the hands of the treasurer in favour of the Union of £6,523 17s. 6d. There were in the Workhouse 436 persons, as compared ...

... Poor-law Unions the power to detain paupers in workhouses for certain fixed period Lat.. Hey moved and Mr. Jessop seconded a resolution to that eifect.—Mr. Bairstow observed that they would make workhouses like prisons.—fhe resolu• Lion was carried by ...

... BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The lint meeting of the newly.elected Board of Guardians for Halifax Union bald in the Huard room at the Workhouse, in Gibbet Street, on Wednesday forenoon, when the following members were present —Meson John Taylor, fiteetrick,l Hebblethwaite ...

... be kept to become workhouse drudges. Mr. J. B. Carter, chairman of the committee, stated that some years ago a Workhouse Ciareification Committee made a number of recommendations, one of which was that the children of the workhouse should be placed entirely ...

... under the consideration of the guardians at Battle, near Hastings. A girl name Wright, aged 19, was recently placed in the workhouse, having been discovered working on a farm at Wallington in male attire. It was subsequently learned that she left her parents ...

... children in the workhouse, and it was resolved that the offer be accepted, and that the thanks of the committee be given to Father Wake for his present. An offer of Messre. Blakey, Emmott and Co., Limited, to erect telephones in the Workhouse for the master’s ...

... the lust three meetings of the Halifax Board of Guardians, when the contentions question of allowing the iumates of the workhouse to have beer and spirits at the annusl Christmas dinner was under discussion. Tt is often said that a looker-on sees most ...

... S. Jackson J. H. Gcontes.in (Brighouse), arid the Fey. Roger Prins (Ellanil). ROLL CALLS OF WORKHOUSE INMATES. Mr. J. 11. Caner, a s chairman of the Workhouse Vi.•iting u.numi.tie, cialaiued that the water at the had been greaser by gallons and gallons ...

... sent to the infections ward of the Kingston workhouse infirmary, whilst suffering from scarlet fever, her master undertaking that all charges should be paid,, after being there three weeks escaped in the workhouse clothing by getting into the yard and over ...