... Tuesday, because mother was afraid if the relieving officer came he would make her go into the Workhouse. The Coroner She would have been better in the Workhouse than starving at home. Have you any children > Witness Only one. The Coroner's Officer All ...

... WORKHOUSE FULL. Crickhowell Union Workhouse is now full, and a special rate of Is 6d, returnable before Septem- ber 29th, has been issued on account of the extra relief measures. At Dukestown and Beaufort, the only colliery districts in the Union,the ...

... | Workhouse Horrors. Children Whipped with Stinging Nettles. At a meeting of the Hackney Board of Guar- dians yesterday a terrible story of cruelty to young children was told. Public attention hac been called to al e^ed accs of systematic crm-ltv practised ...

... SWANSEA WORKHOUSE. The Palace of the Poor. A few days ago I paid a visit to our Work- house, which is splendidly situated on a hill. The master and his wife—Mr and Mrs Morgan- very readily gave ms all the information needed, reading matter and spectacles ...

... THE HARMONY. At Westminster police-court yesterday, Thomas Walsh, an elderly Irishman, a pauper inmate of the Fulham-road Workhouse of the St. George's (Hanover-square) Union, was summoned before Mr Partridge for assaulting another inmate, named James Wright ...

... WORKHOUSE CHILDREN. The Need for Scattered Homes. [FROM A COBBESPONDBNT.I It is to be hoped that the inhabitants of Can- ton, to whom you allude in your very sympa- thetic note of yesterday (January 27th) as havmg signified their objection to the planting ...

... CHRISTMAS AT THE WORKHOUSE, i In connection with the minutes of last meeting twas suggested that it would be advisable to pub- 11 ah the list of those who assisted in making Chnst- as Day a happy one for the paupers. The JJ't of donors is as follows :—Miss ...

... THE WEALTH OF WORKHOUSES. nl - - A n - r at _. I Tke guardians of the Cardiff Union have r*ther wild ideas ofzthe wealth of the Cardiff ratepayers, While thousands are living from hand to mouth, or, as the Americans phrase it, by the akin cf their teeth ...

... MEETING. The monthly meeting of the visiting coom-] mittee of the Cardiff Workhouse was held at the union on Tuesday afternoon. Dr. WILLIAMxeS, the medical officer of the workhouse hospital, drew the attention of the committee to the number of children ...

... THE RIOT IN AN IRISH WORKHOUSE. The Police Foiled by a Woman. I A hundred police, under Mr N. Kennedy, R.M., proceeded to New Ross Workhouse on Saturday, to arrest the women who had assaulted the guardians, but they failed to make any ap- prehensions ...

... WORKHOUSE SCRAPS. One of the problems which face Poor Law guardians is the waste of food that goes on in large workhouses. The importance of the ques- tion from the ratepayers pomt of view has been so far recognised that the Local Government Board have ...

... AN OVERCROWDED WORKHOUSE. One indication of the depressed state of trade in London comes from Hackney, where the de- mands on the gnardiaus are so great that the workhouse is found to be insufficient to accom- modate the applicants for relief. Waiting-rooms ...