... WORKHOUSE REFORM -AT SHEFFIELD, = The Dukeof Norfolk, as Lord Mayorof Shefield, has arranged to opea the newly—exo_cteg quarters for aged erouples at Shefleld Workhouse on October 6. This ivork completes. the important scheme of workhouse reform carried ...

... THE RELIGIOUS DISPUTE AT HONITON WORKHOUSE. At the meeting of the Honiton Board of Guardians, on Baturday, the Chaplain of the Workhouse was permitted, at his request, to make a personal explanation with regard to the little book complained of by Miss ...

... Uneducated —for beyond the rough rudiments imparted at the workhouse school he had Lnd no training of any sort—he was sharpand shrewd, and Lis comments on men and things were curious and quaint, and often whiled away a weary hour of pain and restlessness ...

... bottles stronger than those hitherto used in the workhouse surgery: (3), that the system of receiving medical goorsn at the workhouse requires considerable alteration; and (4) that the surgery doors at the workhouse should have handles flxzs on the inside. ...

... in district asylums to the total number under care was 67 per cent., and in workhouses 27 per cent. In 1895 the ratio in asylums had risen to ge') per cent., while in workhouses it has fallen to 20 per cent. 8o far as any conclusions can be drawn from the ...

... would it make 20 years hence that she had been in the workhouse three weeks apparently ignoring the fact that she would in the meantime have lost her home and probably have to remain in the workhouse —a burden upon the rates. ...

... ABSCONDING FROM HONITON WORKHOUSE TO GET MARRIED. On Saturday, at Honiton Borough Police-court, Edgar Ling, aged 33 years, aninmate of the Honiton | Workhouse, was charged before the ex-Mayor (Dr. Macaulay) with absconding from the Workhouse and stealing clothing ...

... their respective workhouses, and in order that these visits shall be fully complete the guardians are reminded that they are expressly emrowaed to appoint an additional Committee of adies to visit and examine those parts of the workhouse in which female ...

... matter of diamonds Yankeeland, at all events, does not “ lick creation.” A WORKHOUSE BOY'S SUCCESS. A boy of 14, who from the nf of five years has been brought up in the union workhouse in Morpeth, has, in open competition, gained a scholarship at the Royal ...

... THE PAUPER'S PIPE. Havirg decided, after some opposition, that the whole of the old men in the Islington workhouses over 60 years of age should be supplied with an ounce of tobacco a week, the question was raised on Thursday at the usual meeting of the ...

... Montagu Williams at Worship-street as & refractory pauper, and with absconding from the workhouse to which she was chargeable. Mrs. Fitn, a matron of I'ethnal-green Workhouse, said the prisoner was an inmate, and was transterred to St. Giles’s, Mr. Montagu ...

... tion of the Poor-law. There is ¢till among us a large survival of the old school of rigid economists, who hold that the workhouse should be made as unpleasaut as possible in order to discourage applicants for admission, So far as this principle related ...