... Pursued for ever with the stigma► of the Workhouse. You M read ...

... regards diet, the dietary scales in English workhouses are as a rule more varied and generous than those in use in Scottish workhouses. Usually, however, the dietary of the able-bodied in an English workhouse contains one ? and sometimes two, meals daily ...

... present to impose more stringent conditions upon the first class. At Fulham the inmates of the workhouse are to be called more frequently before the Workhouse Committee. They do not like these interviews, and therefore depart earlier than they would otherwise ...

... They all refused to perform any set work, or any work at all in the workhouse. When asked why, they said the food was not of a sufficiently sustaining character. The master the workhouse then produced the bill of fare of which the paupers complained. Daily ...

... incomes by snob methods as the taxation of land values and the super-tax. The break up of the poor law. The abolition of work-houses. Pull and equal citizenship of men and 1110111011. ...

... rates were reported for the past year. Nineteen members of the Corporation owed on an average £l4 each. In Limerick the workhouse is costing £7OOO a year more. with 270 lees inmates, than it did 15 years ago, and the extra cost is owing to increase of ...

... three-fourths of the cost and the Government the rest, which it was .expected would not be much imore than the present cast of workhouses. After some tEscussion, Mr Chaplin said he sympathised with nhe object of the bill. The Local Government Board were taking ...

... decrease of 2.8 per cent., which is much better than the rest of the country; but the number of poor is appallingly high. The Workhouse is not now the deterrent it once was, and there Pt even a class to whom it is a welcome resting-place. The London County ...

... over 70 years of age in workhouses or in receipt of parish relief, but only two years after its introduction the number had been reduced to 58,000. Old age pensions could hare been inaugurated years before these expensive workhouses were built. The Insurance ...

... himself at the inquiry into the Poor Law administration in Poplar. The plain, unvarnished tale of the sufferings of the workhouse boy of byegone days has gone home to many hearts, and created a feeling of sympathy ready to rejoice at the introduction ...

... doors. If they sat down more when in kitchen and nursery, and walked more when they have crossed the threshold of their work-house, it would add colour to their cheeks, grace to their figures, and days to their lives. Walking brushes the cobwebs from ...

... Istiarthans should contiihute an amount corresponding situ that winch they now expend in outdoor mitt and mauitenance la the workhouse ot paupers over years of age a Ito will become ent,tsed to old age pen/hoes next year, is naturaliy meeting with great oojection ...