LEEDS WORKHOUSE
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... the habit of visiting the workhouse for some years, that it was really an ecceptionzay well conducted place. My visit leads me to quite endorse this opinion, and I should be very glad indeed to find all other country workhouses so comnortable and w-e'i ...
... LEEDS WORKHOUSE. :OU- TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. wine m leir GENTLEM~EN,-There is One Statemlent ?? Mr. of iac uib Joseph Rowntree's letter that appeared in your Tuesday's f a issue, respecting the dietary table of the Leeds Work- aerliJ house ...
... physical infirmity, many of them shudder at the mention of the Workhouse, and prefer semi- starvation to what they are pleased to term a sacrifice of their liberty. This feeling against the Workhouse was in one or two cases so marked as to induce the writer ...
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... THE NEW WORKHOUSE. TaE laying of the foundation idtf6-_of a new Workhouse for the accommodat',,jot- the poor of the township of Leeds is an event of considerable fin- portance in our ;c,, innals. The old building in Lady-lane has ,ang been insuflcient ...
... RIPON WORKHOUSE. OPEKN'ING OF TEE -EW' I2NnEMAAll. Though probably not more dilatory than most bodies of the kind, the Ripon Board of Guardians may bei fairlv reckoned to 'have taken time enough over the erection of an adequate -workhouse infirmary, seeing ...
... HIUDDE RSFIELD WORKHOUSE. I EXTRAORDINARY RE VELATIONS. PI1' lie On Monday evening, last, an important vestr'y a meeting of the ratepiayetrs ot' the Hluddersfieild township dens assheld lin thse Guildhali of that town :it was attended to by a very attentive ...
... account of the visit made to the Leeds Workhouse - Mr. Cane and I visited this workhouse on 10th October, 1806. It is situate upon the border of the town, and occupies a considerable plot of land. The body of the workhouse, the infirmary, the lunacy wards, ...