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WORK AND WAGES

... receiving outdoor relief is 2,693. as against 2,629 last week, and 1,878 in the corresponding week of last year. In the workhouse the number of inmates is 921, being an increase of 66 on the corresponding week of last year. Mr. Lomax asked whether it ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 985 | Page: 8 | Tags: Commerce 

FROM LAST NIGHT'S LONDON GAZETTE

... Rastrick. Yesterday, while William Raynor, 73 years of age, of Rastrick, was being taken by his son in a cab to the Halifax Workhouse, suffesing from bronchitis, he suddenly became worse and deed while in the cab. SAD DEATHS AT HALDFAx.-Two sad cases of suicide ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1888
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 699 | Page: 7 | Tags: Commerce 

DIVIDENDS, COMPANY MEETINGS, &c

... OF THE BRADFORD WORKHOUSE. At the meeting of the Bradford Board of Guardians yesterday, a copy was read of the report presented to Ithe Losal Government Board by Dr. Fuller and Mr. I H. D. Kennedy, of a visit to the Bradford Workhouse on February 25th ...

Published: Thursday 11 April 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2006 | Page: 6 | Tags: Commerce 

TRADES' MOVEMENTS

... he exhibited such signs of inanity that It was I founid necessar to convey him to the Insane-vard, I f. at the Sheffiel t Workhouse, where he ?? on I r Tuesday; norning. Demeora c hbs lost in hm a faithful ind holnet adsecote, ' 11 -Aecrsalcu.-TliO membessi ...

LEEDS BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... LEEDS BOARD OF GUARDIANS. tUE4BiA)J .55Ul!ALXJ 'J.U THlE PROPOSED RETIRING PENSION TO THE WORKHOUSE MASTER. At tlb3 weekly nleetingyestcriday of tho Leods Guardians, thc deplutation appointed at a mccting on the previous cvuling in, front of tb c Town ...

Published: Thursday 26 March 1874
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 905 | Page: 6 | Tags: Commerce 

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

... once more formed a topic of discussion. As workhouse is within the city boundary, and the Guardians pay sanitary rates the Corporation, they coutend that when a case infectious disease breAs ont at the workhouse they are entitled to send it to the Corporations ...

Published: Thursday 06 October 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4595 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

THE RISE IN THE PRICE OF COAL

... able-bodied 99. children under sixteen 63; total number in Workhouse, 157. Corresponding week:- Indoor poor: Adults, able-bodied 9, not able-bodied 83, children under sixteen 76; total number in Workhouse, 168. Outdoor ?? ending May 25th:-Number of persons relieved: ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1897 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

FREE TRADE AT WORK

... and soul together, and who-in this first year of Free-trade-have, for the first time in their l lives, been driven to the Workhouse doors for relief. Who then is the gainer ? Not even the manu- facturer, for whose special benefit Free-trade became the law ...

Published: Friday 05 April 1850
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1271 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

VOLUNTEER RIFLE COMPANY IN CUNNECTION WITH THE LEEDS WOOLLEN TRADE

... of obtaining the consent of sunh cs meeting to tie sale by the Guardians of the premises lately na occupied by them as a workhouse, but now unoccupied and belonging to that township; also a letter from the Poor-law Board consenting to the Guardians continuing ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1860
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2042 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce 

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CATTLE TRADE REPORT

... city magistrates, at Lincohn, oi Saturday )Vo. lr: ?? an inmate of the Lincoln Workhouse, was charii.' V ithe manslaughter of Win. BowmAn, an iease imbecile ward at the workhouse. Too pri-et ti o superintendent of the imbecile w3rd, and it W's t.-. r that ...

Published: Monday 05 April 1886
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1605 | Page: 6 | Tags: Commerce 

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS

... deputattioa to London to thc Local Government Board on the subject, end the authorities had ngivenl them powecr to rent Spotlaud Workhouse. A special maeeting of the las Gniirdians had been called, and the vvorkhouse wouxld be Gec ready in two days to accommoate ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1881
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

MAIL AND SHIP NEWS

... Mr John Hall Thorp c ,rs presided, had under consideration certain irregularities is- charged against the master of the workhouse, Mr. rid Grosvenor.' A report was read at a macting of the board raag a few iveeks ego, in which- it was char gad against ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1880
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1647 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce