... families. The result is an order for admittance into the parish workhouse, and the degradation of England's pride into a pauper. • n_ How different the case here I No poor laws—no workhouses—no demands for food—and a population —who, if not kept in a state ...

... insurance, and hays a bare £3 for emergencies, would seem to the thrifty Scotch or English house-wile to be a threatening of the workhouse. The Australian lives in the sunshine, puts by in insurance more than he can afford, spends his income, and gambles his savings ...

... Reynolds's Yetospaper, Nov. 26). Condemnation cannot be too severe of the carelessness owing to which two children in Leigh Workhouse, vaccinated within thirteen days of birth, both died of septic poisoning. The Local Government Board state.s definitely that ...

... any proposed addition to the Hospitals for the accommodation of the Poor in the Bill, yet it is much wanted. ll' a Contra] Workhouse was erected it might be placed under the control of the Consolidated Board. He thought the appointment of an Inspector of ...

... into the workhouse. No disgrace whatever is attached to a visit to a casual ward ; it is an unpleasaot little episode, that is all ; nor is even a residence in the workhouse regarded as a stigma. The discipline maintained its the only workhouse there is ...

... in the street Half-naked I behold, While I am clad from head to foot, And covered from the cold. Whilst they . are fed on workhouse fare, And grudged their scanty food, Three times a day my meals I get, Sufficient, wholesome, good. Then to the British Public— ...

... issues. Thus ho touched upon the question of out-dom and in-door relief, upon the waste which prevails too extensively in workhouse management ou the capricious inequality of bath management and discip me, and on the position occupied as well as the work ...

... Racing Items The other day, in poverty, obscurity. and forgotten old age thee in the Derive workhouse, a panper, whose name once as well known al mach honoured among racing men as that at Ueorge Ford. him is to day. Thirty years since Clafillle Marlovr ...

... in any previous year since 1874, and the ratio per thousand the highest for 40 lyears except between 1867 and 1871. The workhouse ceuicue is the maximum during the , existence of the Poor Law. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph that ...

... hereafter in the changes Rod chances ot this mortal life, I fail to cureless ruin, I will tell the superintendent of the workhouse that Mark Twain on put •his hand on my shoulder ! and he shall give me a room to myself and a double allowance of pauper's ...

... gtith Foot.—Lieutendnt William Le Hardy to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Barnett, whovetirc.s. Lieutenant P. Workhouse, from the 2oth Foot, to be ditto, vice Deane, who retires.. . -Ist West India Rttt.---lohn Hart, Gcnt. to be Ensign, without ...

... week as a holiday.— Perth Courier. Workhouses were first erected in England in the year 1723, when they had an instant and striking effect in reducing the number of poor. Indeed the aversion of the poor to workhouses was 80 great, that Sir F. M. Eden mentions ...