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THE CONSUMPTION OF SPIRITS, &c., AT THE LEEDS WORKHOUSE

... ordered stistulants by tire doctor. No sne, how ever, will grumble at the milr bill. The total quatostity received at the workhouse in tihe two years barely amounts to a pint and a huhf per week for the in- mates of the ho3pitat alone, if they lhad consumied ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1876
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1263 | Page: 11 | Tags: Commerce 

LEEDS BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... the workhouse. There were {9 pauper officials who received a pint of beer daily, and 40 who reseived half-a-pint, and each received aix ounces of bread and oue ounce of chese, extra. This evidently was a sort of inducement to stay in the workhouse, and ...

Published: Thursday 30 August 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 892 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

THE EPIDEMIC AT WARRINGTON

... Warrington inquire into the outbreak, aa it ia affecting the union workhouse, where there are four patient*. These gentlemen vised that two or three rooma near the board-room the workhouse should set aside fir purpose* of quarantine, and that people seeking ...

Published: Friday 16 September 1892
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

HOLBECK BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... accepted at the Holbeck Workhouse-Myr. Noore tclerk) said he had seen their chairinan Qhjr, Garnett) after the receipt of MIr. Ring's letter, and had afterwards written the Leeds UInion Clerk that thev could not receive such a ?? Workhouse \Thestsr reported ...

Published: Tuesday 22 September 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 632 | Page: 7 | Tags: Commerce 

LEEDS BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... 11ESIDENT IDIEAL- OFFICRE AT TUE WORKHOUSE. A report read from a special committee appointed at a late Board meeting, recommended that in the place of Mr. Land, who had resigned, a resident medical-cfficar for the Workhouse and Industrial Schools be appointed ...

Published: Thursday 16 May 1872
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2012 | Page: 8 | Tags: Commerce 

THE CHARTISTS AT NORWICH

... were met by cries of, Why don you look to the New Poor Law?” Where’s the slavery in your new work-houses,” Look at slavery at home!” *' Go to the workhouses and the factories!” When Archdeacon Bathurst mentioned his father’s charities, he was told he ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1840
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 875 | Page: 3 | Tags: Commerce 

LEEDS BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... not to that extent. TH3 BEER QUESTION. Mr. PEAcoo moved-*' That the beer required for use at the Workhouse and Industrial School be brewed on the workhouse premises for the next eight months. He remarked that, as it was necessary that beer should be provided ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: 6 | Tags: Commerce 

lf*k’DtVS9D.4K. June 10,

... upon security the Kates for the relief of Pm.r and fur the sard Town of Ktngston-npon-Hull. for the purpose of Building Workhouse for reception, employment, classification, and relief of Poor Persons, and which said Order of said P..or Law Commissioners ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1835
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 1210 | Page: 1 | Tags: Commerce 

WORK AND WAGES

... had Bo disgraced him that he would punish her by puttiug her into the workhouse and paying Ge. a week for her maintenance. Messrs. Lunton ead Craven had ordered her out of the workhouses, because, as she had a father who could maintain her, she could not ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1878
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1389 | Page: 5 | Tags: Commerce 

SETTLEMENT OF THE STRIKE IN THE IRON TRADE

... remarkable character named Charles Cartwright, aged t 64. He had been an inmate of the workhouse for a 't good many years, and at one time was an officer of the workhouse. He was a man who at the beginning of his I life, and'foi a good many years, lived in ...

Published: Friday 07 November 1879
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 944 | Page: 7 | Tags: Commerce 

HALIFAX BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... were of opinion that there was a number of patients who might with s,fety be removed to the imbecie wards of the Halifax Workhouse. They were past hope of recovery, were perfectly harmless, and it would be some comfort to their friends to have them nearer ...

Published: Thursday 14 June 1877
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 639 | Page: 6 | Tags: Commerce 

THE HARVEST AND THE CORN TRADE

... exists to a considerable extent in this couutychiefly amongst potatoes grown on wet and undrained TOERY JOBBING AT THIE LEEDS WORKHOUSE TO THE EDITORS Or THE LEEDS MERCURY. Leeds, Oct. 14, 1845. *(jEnTLEiErf2-As the. Municipal Elections are drawing r near, ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1845
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 855 | Page: 8 | Tags: Commerce