... THE WORKHOUSE. The Clerk submitted a letter received from the Vicar of Mursley explaining that in consequence of abort notice given a alight hitch had occurred in regard to the burial of a Willesden pauper, which should have taken place at Slureley,and ...

... AT THE WORKHOUSE. At the Workhouse morning service was conducted by the Bev. W. F. J. Timbrell, who preached an extempore mermen admirably adapted to the occasion, and the hymns sung were While shepherds watched, Come, all ye faithful, and Praise ...

... THE WORKHOUSE The Medical Officer's report as to the eonditiou of the Workhouse was read. Whereas the diet satisfactory, the ventilation was defective. But it was :almost inipossililit to satisfactorily ventilate a house built as the Buck nigh iin Union ...

... WORKHOUSE REPAIRS. Mr. J. B. Hedges proposed, and M r East snonded, that •committee consisting of chairman. vice-chairman, and Mr. Neal, together with the Visiting Coinmittee for the fortnight (Messrs. W. Hedges and J. Mead) be appointed to engage the ...

... all their lives, our old people should constantly be compelled to come into the workhouse before they died. He had nothing to say against the administration of the workhouses, but they involved loss of home, loss of independence, and the sundering of the ...

... WORKHOUSE FARE. Few people have 'an jdea of the quantity of provisions and requirements in a workhouse. In a union comprising Staffordshire and Worcestershire parishes, with a total number of inmates of between five and six hundred, the following items ...

... AT TOWCESTER WORKHOUSE. At Towcester Police Court on Monday, Richard Woodward, an inmate of the Towcester Union Workhouse, was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on William Coekerill,l another inmate.—On the evidence of the Master, Woodward ...

... WORKHOUSE ALTERATIONS, A letter front the Local Government Board re alterations at tho Workhouse vras road as follows : Local Go% ernment Board, \Vhitehrll, S.W It October, am directed by the Local Government Board to advert to your letter of the 24th ...

... WORKHOUSE GRUMBLERS, Complaints by paupers of the treatment they receive have of late considerably increased in number. All that the grumbler has. to do (remarks the City Press) is to address a letter to the Local Government Board bringing an army ...

... FESTIVITIES AT THE WORKHOUSE, Here, as usual at this season, there were great doings, though last year's stanaard was hardly reached in some respects. The decorations. which were the work of an inmate—Richard Steedenwere good, and amongst the evergre ...

... ENTERTAINMENTS AT THE WORKHOUSE. Miss Holland made application to the Board for the use of the boanl-room in order that she might give her usual entertsinment to the inmates.— the application was granted, and the Chairman expressed the wish that if any ...

... RENOVATING THE WORKHOUSE. The Clerk rea.l tenders for the work of painting the front of the Workhouse, ke., as specihed the ranging as follows :—A3 155., £4 45., £5 16s. W., gi; 1:4., and Ai 10s.—Ou the propuaitiou of Mr. W. Weston, seconded by Mr. Holland ...