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WORKHOUSE

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Published: Saturday 21 July 1888
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE At the usual meeting of the Guardians, held at the Workhouse, sn Wednesday, there were present :—Messrs Ingram (chairman), Broad- head, Stones, Clayton, Beverley, Milnes, Scarth, Fountain, Wordsworth, Charlesworth, Armitage, Skinner, Butler ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1891
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Imbeciles in the Workhouse

... Imbeciles in the Workhouse. The Clerk read a letter from the Local Government Boezil transmitting a copy of the report midis to that body by an assismat Cemmianioner-ia-Lunacy. who had recently visited the ,Workuouse. This report stated that ou the 4th ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1886
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WORKHOUSE DIET

... THE WORKHOUSE DIET. Mr. GOLDTHORP called attention to the dietary question. Sad complaints had been made about the gruel; and the inmates preferred porridge. It WAS even worse than prison diet. be CHAIRMAN said that a very eminent medical man had gi ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1868
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3446 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INMATES IN THE WORKHOUSE

... INMATES IN THE WORKHOUSE The MASTIIK reported that the number of inmates in the house during the past fortnight was as follows : Men, 99: women, 73; boys. 55; girls, 46 ; infanta, 20 — total, 293. Corresponding period last year, 275. The Board then adjourned ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1878
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2474 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

INMATESIY THE WORKHOUSE

... INMATESIY THE WORKHOUSE. The number of inmates la‘be workhouse was announced as follows—Alen women bays 54, girls 46, Infants los total 772; corresponding week last year 276. ...

Published: Saturday 17 August 1878
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 27 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE MATTERS

... month.—A letter was read from Mr. G R. Parker, of Legh Street, stating that since he commenced to nt the outside of the Workhouse he found that he had mad? a serious error in the contract for the painting of the inside, and asking the Guardians to cancel ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1894
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RIOT IN A WORKHOUSE

... RI ID RKHOUSE. At a meeting of Lambeth Board of on Wi ednesday, the master of the at workhouse report that on the previous +. , on gruel being sy lied in the women’s ‘ware instead of tea, under new dietagy scale, ‘the inmates rose in a body, and created ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1884
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ELECTION OF WORKHOUSE YMRES

... ELECTION WORKHOUSE The next business was the election of a work- house master. There were five candidates, viz.: Mr Joseph Rogers, late wistant master of the Sheffield and Birmingham Workhouses. sines, aged 39; Wm. Freeman Hodgson, formerly male supe ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1870
Newspaper: Wakefield Free Press
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 799 | Page: 2 | Tags: none