... enter- tainment was given by the workhouse children in honour of the ladies who annually give them their New Year's tea, presents. Arc. Mr. Hargreaves accom- panied the children on the piano, and Mr. Berry (the workhouse children's bandmaster) on the fiute ...

... ANOTHER WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. At a meeting of the Blackburn Board of Guardians, on Saturday, a committee, appointed to investigate the management of the Workhouse, reported that dnring a prolonged enquiry into allegations against the officials the master ...

... CROSLAND MOOR WORKHOUSE. For breakfast on Christmas Day the inmates of Crosland Moor Workhouse received coffee and bread and butter in lieu of their ordinary diet. Boast beef with mashed potatoes, plum pudding, beer, also excellent sauce was provided ...

... SUICIDE AT SALFORD WORKHOUSE. About half-past six o'clock ou Saturday morning one of tbe Inmates of the Salford Union Workhoo.se, Eooles New-road, went into the aaddle-room. adjoining the stable, and was shooked to find the van driver, George Mnlroy, ...

... Board, which should exercise authority over each county. At the present time the country contains an adequate number of workhouses, and abundance of accommodation for the aged and in- firm poor of every parish throughout England. The whole of the Poor-law ...

... ANOTHER WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. THE S.JALES FOR WEIGHING FOOD USED AT YOST.MORTEM EXAMINATIONS. condition of things was brought to light at Friday night's meeting of the Westminster Guardians, it being stated that the scales noon which is weighed the food ...

... THE BRADFORD WORKHOUSE TRAGEDY. On Tuesday, the Bradford coroner (Mr. J. ?? Hutchinson) held an enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of James Cooper (24) an imbecile patient at the Bradford Workhouse, who died on Sunday from the results ...

... BLACKBURN WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. REVELATIONS OF THE AUDIT. At the meeting of the Blackburn Board of Guardians, on Saturday, several members enquired the cause of the delay of the Local Government Board's sanction to the proposed increase of the salaries of ...

... unutterable distress, what was I to do ? The reply which, unon enquiry, I received to this ques. tiou was, Go to the Workhouse. The Workhouse! That very word aroused a multitudinous host of rebel- lious emotions in every corner of my heart, and they soon ...

... LAND-POOR WORKHOUSE Mr. Ronson drew attention to the condition of the children et Croolluul-moor Workhouse. fie rid it wee very desirable that Diu Dawkins should have an insistent teacher at ones to help her, the children were not now having jostles done ...

... on the officials of the workhouse or those in authority, but I must say that from the number of prisoners who are constantly brought before the magistrates for neglecting to per- form their task at the Crosland Moor Workhouse, it looks very much as if ...

... GRAVE WORKHOUSE SCANDAL AT SHEFFIELD. The Sheffield Guardians were yeeterdsy sepged In Investigating a grave workhouse scandal. A man named John Wool, formerly a draper le Sheffield. bet reunify redueed to become seriously 111 at hi. lodgings, and was ...