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WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE A fracas amongst the old men inmates the Union Workhouse Saturday last resulted in Michael Glackin, aged seventy-four years, being yesterday charged before the magistrates with assaulting another old man named James Swift, who admitted provoking ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1917
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE. TWENTY STONES OF BEEF D 1 There wae eormthing liko a rcnsation among fAo members the Board Guardians JOB torday sflornoon, when letter was read from Dr. Robinson. the medical officer, stating that he had on Monday the beef supplied to the house ...

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE. ,\t th** mating tin* Scarboruiigh Board Guardians yt-atrrday. lettt-r was ficro the Mrdu-al Officer ;Ur. drawing atu-ntimi to the urgent { (•.ttldKl mom for dangerous lunutice. TlieClmnman (Sir Cliarlea Bart.,) stated that -luti time ago u ...

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE. An exciting adventure with buJl reported from the Poor Lew Institution, Doncestn. wes being driven from the Warms* worth district the Donca«ter abattoir, when, dashing away from the drover, r*n into the Poor Law Institution ground*, where gave ...

WORKHOUSE

... WORKHOUSE. The Hartlepool Guardians yesterday refuted request from a man living on the Central Estate, that his wife and children might accepted into the Workhouse as paying guest*, owing to his inability to secure house, rooms, or lodgings for them. ...

Published: Saturday 02 August 1919
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE HORRORS

... WORKHOUSE HORRORS. CHILDREN WHIPPED WITH STINGING NETTLES. At a meeting of tire Hackney Board of Guardiar. yesterday terrible story of fiendish cruelty to young, children was told. Public attention had been called alleged acts of systematic cruelty practised ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1894
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SINGING IN THE WORKHOUSE

... SINGING IN THE WORKHOUSE DENOUNCED AS A NUISANCE BY A DOCTOR. At a meeting of the Hunslet Board of Guardians Mr. Kobb said certain parties had been in yesterday, f visiting the infirmary an singing. the habit o topped the Mr. Butterick thought if this ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1899
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TEETOTALISM IN THE WORKHOUSE

... IN THE WORKHODsp OHANGES FROM THE OLD DAYS Ivy Teetotal workhouses are just now formin ga of some public interest, and cla: put forward by Union authorit.es. are beng Tre Clerk to the Leeds Guardians (Mr. Ford) approached by an © Pest” reporter tii: ang ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1901
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 614 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GREENWICH WORKHOUSE

... GREENWICH WORKHOUSE. THE SMOKERS SAFELY THROUGH THE RPIDKMJf?. From investigations at Greenwich it appear* tbat tbe cholera bacillus does not like smoke. The authorities at the workhouse have discovered that male inmates who had bfeen great smokers, or ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1893
Newspaper: Leeds Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE HOLBECK WORKHOUSE

... visited at the workhouse. He gave the master some hints as to the writing of the letter Ramsden sent to the Local Government Board. Mr Thos. Ramsden, the workhouse master, examined by Mr. Ferns said he had been master of the Holbeck Workhouse for five years ...