... accommodation is being provided at Plaistow. A I. wonderful saving has been effected in the workhouse stores without reducing the food of the poor. Inmates of n workhouse, 2,097 (last year, 2,064); men, 735; women, * 1,089; children, 273; and 343 children at ...

... :AN' EXIBITION OF LEGAL TEETH, A remarkable scene was witnessed at an inquest on Saturday evening, at the Eastbourne Workhouse, held by the Bmst Suiex Coroner (Mr. George Hillian), on the body of John Deadman, a homeless labourer, who bad been sleeping ...

... Union considered in four phases : in relation to the method of administering relief; the manner which tho workhouse was kept; the dietary of the workhouse and the mode in which the books of the Union were kept. The enormous amount of abuses found to prevail ...

... Blackheath. 3 A NOvEL WORKHOUSE TEST.-ST. PANCRASi B WORKHOUSE E MD TiE LANCAaSmE RELIEF FUND.-A , movement of sympathy for the distress in Lancashire has been commenced in the parish of St. Pancras. The inmates Yof a workhouse, themselves the recipients ...

... relative to the workhouse system in Ireland. : We published on Monday a sketob, by an able hand, orthe Cork workhouse, ad tha utmdne Imptove. ment effected by a good system of indoor work. The account which we gave of the Cork' workhouse is strongly contrasted ...

... visit by the president, Mr. Dodson, I to the workhouses of the locality, decided that the gaar- dians of the Holborn Union must forthwith commence, in at a cost of 100,00W., the erection of a new workhouse )n at Upton for the accommodation of the poor ...

... of a good dinner and tea in the pavilion of the western area. We men- tion workhouse children, in the hope of other parishes following this example, as we believe the workhouse children of this parish and St. Giles's- ?? to be the only ones who visited ...

... they stated that, except some alteration were l fmade in the workhouses, they would close them. Mr. Reap l presided. In July, Mr. Manwaring, the poor-law inspector, I reported the workhouses to the Poor-law Board, as having i sno receiving wards, and without ...

... dreadfully injured by being forced by the crowd against some of the barriers. The great3st praise i. ue to the master of Lambeth workhouse, Mr. Plercy. Id be- haved most kindly throughout; the bodies were plated in the probationary ward, and the doors of the houee ...

... Bright, Muller, Lionel, Cooke, Ansdell, Elmore, Goodall, Cooper, Hook, Poole, Wilkie, Stanfield, and Roberts. THE SICK IN WORKHOUSES. The admirable paper on this important subject read by Miss F. P. Cobbe at the last meeting of the Social Science Association ...

... ON A Dook STEP.-Yesterday Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest in the Marylebone Workhouse, on the body of Stephen Stephens, aged 60, formerly an inmate of the above workhouse. Deceased was found by the police on the step of a door in Manchester-square, ...

... WORtKEOIJSE5 AT MANCEESTER~.-Tile guardians of the Choriton union, Mancehester, have corn- mlenced the erection of a new workhouse on a scale much larger than their present building, which, though a very modern erection (perhaps a dozen years old),basbaen ...