... Workhouse Diet.- This has been a week of feasting, for all who can afford it and even those who cannot afford it, have, in many cases, by parochial and charitable agencies, been provided with a square meal, such as they rarely obtain at other times ...

... Pensioners in Workhouses.- Pensioners in Workhouses. The old soldier is proverbially smart even the Heathen Chinee could not teach him much if all that is said of him be true. But it jars 011 one's sense of the proprieties to learn that the British ...

... METROPOLITAN WORKHOUSES. On going into Committee of Supply, _ . _ Viscount Raynham moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the condition and administration of Metropolitan Workhouses, and into the arrangements made and carried out by the parochial ...

... WORKHOUSE INFIRMARIES, THE meeting to set on foot a movement for improving the condition workhouse infirmaries held last Saturday, at 'Willis’s Booms, was numerously attended. The Ifiarl of Carnarvon took the chair, and there were present, among very ...

... Workhouse Workhouse 4 AND D] THE WEEK &NI ty 6 1 up 'DAM DA' ...

... WORKHOUSES AND INFIRMARIES. Among the questions set down for discussion in this department was one relating to the best means improving the management of workhouses, by Wr. S. W. W. North, while papers were contributed by Mr. R. K. VVarwick “Observations ...

... THE WORKHOUSE SYSTEM IN IRELAND. Mr. Fagan moved for a Select Committee to investigate the present state of the Irish workhouse system, together with the laws relating to medical charities and the relief of the sick poor in the sister kingdom. Mr. H. ...

... to be hoped, the poor are treated with reasonable consi deration in both these classes of institutions and, as regards, workhouses, we judge from a careful report on The Legal Poor, which appeared in the Times at Christmas, that many- alleviations and ...

... WORKHOUSE. ' Thi*! ir.ornirg, at Coventry Police Court, John 1 McDermott, described labourer, of no settled abode, | was charged with wilfull? lireaking pane of gins* the Sfominrd and doing damage to the amount uf*s«. fcd. The bief of Police stated that ...

... In Workhouse 78 79 71 99 581 641 15 . 18 In Lunatic Asylums Vasrrant Wards Out-door Paupers Non-resident Paupers COST OOT-DOOR RELIEF FOR WEEK. 1869—£50 11 7 1865—£62 2 1 W. C. Watson, Clerk. ...

... and Laurence. , The weekly returns that the number of inmates iu the workhouse was 2,1*85, increase of :VJ ou the week, and 33 on the year. road Workhouse there were 88 persons. The number patients in the hospital was 860, decrease of the vear. and 15 ...

... THE WORKHOUSE. On Monday evening concert was held in the Workhouse Board-room, which (by permission of the Guardians) had been transformed into entertainment room, with the necessary stage, foot-lights, curtains, decorations, &c. Scenes from The Mikado ...