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WASTE IN WORKHOUSES

... WASTE IN WORKHOUSES. A report was issued Wednesday the Committee appointed by the l ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1898
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

LEEDS WORKHOUSE

... LEEDS WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY EXTENSION INAUGURATED. The •worMiouse hospital whicii has been undertaken by the Leeds Board 06 Gnuardiiaaß to meet the growing needs of their work ■was formality ineugoraited yesterday afternoan, when, at the Bectett-street ...

Published: Tuesday 11 October 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SCIiNli IN WORKHOUSE

... SCIiNli IN WORKHOUSE. Attempt Belabour Halifax Labour Master. A scene at Halifax Workhouse was described the Borough Magistrates yesterday, when two inmates, James C. Brown and Lawrence McDonald, who have been making use of the institution, on and off ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1923
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE FARE

... WORKHOUSE FARE, N- EW ORDER AS TO THE DAILY RATIONS. Though a lady speaker at the Congregational Union the other day. with the charaoteistic moderation of her sea, described the workhouse as a living grave, it would be a little rash to accept the definition ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1515 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

BEER IN THE WORKHOUSE

... BEER IN THE WORKHOUSE. ■ almost had a mntlnr la*t night, said an official of the Togtelh Workhoase Liverpool yesterday, whan five inmates were dealt with. John Stead, charged with abecondi tig, wa* climbing the workhouse wall with bottles beer. was put ...

Published: Thursday 29 December 1910
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE REVOLT

... WORKHOUSE REVOLT. INMATES INVITED TO WRITE THEIR COMPLAINTS. Mr. Oxlev, local Government Board Inspector, opened Inquiry yesterday at Belmont Workhouse, Sutton, Surrey, into the recent disfnrbances at that institntiou resulting the imprisonment of se ...

Published: Tuesday 20 December 1910
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MAFEKING IN THE WORKHOUSE

... IA,'FELING IN THE I ~WORKHOE. PONTEFRACT POOR HAVE A TEA AND CONCERT. IFROIX OUR. OWN ESIPORTER) If a. workhouse were always so pleasant a place as was yesterday the building in which the destitute and aged of the inhabitants of Pontefract are domiciled ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1900
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1588 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE HUDDERSFIELD WORKHOUSE

... THE HUDDERSFIELD WORKHOUSE. TO THlE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. GFBNTLE~llEN,-rrOrU thle kindly interest you Isave evinced in thle several matters connected with the treatment of thle sick peer, of Hludderalield township, now to prominently before the ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1848
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2262 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

ECOSOMY IN WORKHOUSES,

... ECOSOMY IN WORKHOUSES, At Board Guardians, yesterday. it was suggested great economy could be effected combining with one of the neighbouring unions. It was decided to ask the Howden and Thorne Boards send representatives to confer with the Goole Board ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1920
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Avoiding the Workhouse

... Avoiding the Workhouse. “ It is one of the results of the old-age pension,” he said. keep out the workhouse and draw the old-age pension they will get any sort of cherp house to live in, and they have in many cases in Bradford and elsewhere found tiheir ...

Published: Thursday 13 February 1930
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LUNATICS IN THE WORKHOUSE

... LUNATICS IN THE WORKHOUSE. At Saturday’s meeting of the Pontefract Guardians, was drawn Mr. Addy (Eairburn) to the fact that recently, when visiting the infirmary, in the course of conversation with certain patient, ha at once expressed his opinion that ...

Published: Monday 05 June 1905
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE NEW WORKHOUSE

... THE NEW WORKHOUSE Al meeting of the Keigtilcy (i ik»w.»n* the Clerk reported that 159 union- »o ai»ly to the circular M»nt out i'i the new dietary »hou!d made • ' “-. uniooa had sent indefinite repi •>. dn 1* not wish auppon the auggcrO-'n. adopted the ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1901
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1609 | Page: 9 | Tags: none