... THE DRAINAGE OF THE WORKHOUSE. Mr. G. H. Gledhill made a reference to the very insanitary condition of the workhouse. The drains were in a very bad condition, and he wished the Board would give the House Committee full power to do something 1n the matter ...

... ALTERATIONS AT THE WORKHOUSE. The Local Government Board wrote approving of the improved plans submitted by the Guardians of the alterations which they propose carrying out at the workhouse in order to sronda accommodation for nurses, on the understanding ...

... upon to build a new Workhouse. He considered they would be making a great mistake if they ineurred a large ewendlture in effecting alterations to the present Workhouse. To his wind, the time was comiug when the question of a new Workhouse would be brought ...

... With regard to in:lividual workhouses, it appears that in the St. Pancras workhouse, with an average of 1,867 pauper inmates, £687 Gs. id. was spent in intoxicating liquors during the year. In the West Derby (Lancashire) workhouse £755 2s. Bd. was similarly ...

... THE NURSING IN THE WORKHOUSE. In accordance with notice of motion, Mr. Wm. ‘Wilson moved that a deputation of the Board visit the workhouse infirmaries in some of the large Unions of the North of England, to make enquiries generally as to the nursing ...

... WORKHOUSE DINNER. T'he inmates of the Halifax Workhouse had their Christmas dinner on Monday, when a large number of visitors assembled. The number of inmates was 435, the larger portion of whom assembled in the dining-room, and a plentiful supply of ...

... INTOXICANTS AT WORKHOUSES. Illegal supply,—At a Congress bet I at Ramt.gate on Tuesday, a paper was read on intoxicants in Workhouses, in the course of which it was shown that the Workhouse Drink Bill lal hen reduced from £B2 000 to £32,000, sa•ing £50 ...

... able-bodied inmates of the workhouse. The deputation pointed out that the ratepayers upon the occasion of the last audit of the parochial accounts had objected to the expenditure for drink given to paupers in health employed in the workhouse, as contravening the ...

... WORKHOUSE PROSECUTIONS. At the Clerkenwell police-court on Saturday Johanna Murray, an ironer, was charged with disorderly conduct and with using bad language while an inmate ef the St. Pancras workhouse. The labour master stated that Murray was a few ...

... MISERS IN THE WORKHOUSE. Two instances have just come to light of comparetively well-to-do persons taking refuge in the workhouse. John Cameron, a Scotsman, has just died in the Toxteth workhouse, and when stripped preparatory to being put in his coffin ...

... to the police station, and there discovered that prisoner wag dressed in Unirn Workhouse clothing. In answer to an inquiry from the Chairman. prisoner raid he was a workhouse inmate because he was unable to work on account of rheumatism. The Chairman: It ...

... WASTE IN WORKHOUSES. This is a subject that is deservedly claiming a great deal of attention at the hands of those interested in the administration of the poor law. The enormous waste that is constantly going on in the workhouses is awful to contemplate ...