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... THE WORKHOUSE. IT appears that the Poor Law Board have not yet de- cided about the plans for the building of a new wing to the Cardiff Union. The delay is doubtless owing to the extraordinary nature of the circumstances of the case—circumstances which ...
... WORKHOUSE REVELATIONS. guardian of the Farnham Workhouse, in a letter to the Times, admits that the condition of that union is very unsatisfactory (he casts the blame on the Poor-law Board), as no doubt most people will agree when they read the following ...
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... THE WORKHOUSE CONTRACT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN. SIR,—I read with much interest and pleasure the able article in your last respecting the Union Work- house Contract; and while endorsing your strictures, by no means too severe, on the parties concerned ...
... AN IRISH WORKHOUSE. On the 20th inst. a poor man of the name of John Tobin committed suicide by cutting his throat in the Kanturk Workhouse hospital, where he was being treated for disease of the heart. The deed was done with a bit of broken glass, with ...
... The following appeared in the Second Edition. ] CARDIFF WORKHOUSE. The usual weekly meeting of the guardians of this Union took place in the board-room of the workhouse on Saturday last, at 12 o'clock.. The master reported 65 ad- missions and 52 discharges ...
... TOBACCO IN THE WORKHOUSE. The following ode to a tobacco-pipe was written by one Isaac Hawkins Browne, born in 1705, died 1760, and is now dedicated, without permission, to Mr. R. Cory, who objects to the use of tobacco as savouring too much of luxury ...
... Poor in the Workhouses. ] Is there no nerve or sense of responsibility left in British Ministers or members of the House of Commons ? Day after day the most shocking revela. tions are made of the cruelties perpetrated in the London workhouses and hospitals ...
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... THE CARDIFF WORKHOUSE. THE writer of the letter to Malvolio in Shake- speare's comedy tells him that some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. This is equally true of wisdom some are born wise, some ac- quire ...
... THE BRIDGEND WORKHOUSE. THE extraordinary revelations in connection with workhouse management, or rather mismanagement, which have recently been brought to light in the different Unions of the country, have in not a few instances developed t ...