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... Merthyr Board of Guardians, and a Magistrate for the borough, who had been spendittg the week in London came down to the Workhouse on Saturday armed with the authority of the Secretary of State in his pocket to call a body of soldiers into the district ...
... Wales, and Scotland. They care not whether their workpeople live or die, whether they starve in a hovel, or perish in a workhouse. They look . ...
... religions scorn upon the lower orders of society. Such are some of the blessings of the patriarchal system. TURNING THZ WORKHOUSE INTO A LODGING HOUSE. At the Merthyr Board of Guardians on Saturday last, An application was read from an aged inmate, asking ...
... ordered by the Local Goveinment Board into the eiroutiedanset ttttnding the death of a girl named nustingworth in Clayton Workhouse. She admitted into the bourne imam through disappointment in love, and wax left in a ward without a fire-xwird. She accidentally ...
... weak, sickly, and scorfulous beings, ready victims for every prevailing epidemic, or growini up to people the gaols and workhouses. The means that would provide better houses, schools, and other works of improvement and in providing these, at the same ...
... beggarly pittances, quite insufficient to feed himself and family, and Las contentedly laid himself down at last to die in the workhouse, little thinking that more than thresfonrths of the value of his toil had been filched from him, by the pompous and patronising ...
... much anxiety for the welfare of the poor, and more especially for the working men, that he has been ransacking one of the workhouses for any imbecile specimen, or remnant of humanity that could be soaped up to work for him. This is certainly a novelty. ...
... the wages of their sop amounting to 9s. a week. Not being able to maintain his family upon half what the paupers in the work-house cost the ratepayers, and supply his afflicted wife with medical comforts, the doctor ordered the Relieving Officer to supply ...
... had a right to the hest p)ssible prices, in order that he might be able to pay twenty shillings in the pound and defy the workhouse and parish officers. How were they to do that except by unionism? After relating his experience as a workman, and alluding ...
... in cuttings, tunnels, and embankments, and left • wives and children to the tender mercies of the poor-law board and the workhouse officials. “ Oh ! for the rarity Of Christtan charity Under the sun, In a whole cityful Oh! it was pitiful, Home they had ...
... Danko' machinery. the ' YerIOUS - SERIOUS CHARGE AGATITST A CLERGYMAN. The Rev. W. Lloyd Myrtles, chaplain of one of the Hull workhouses, lately curate in charge of one of tho oharolisp, who in also a gentlema. of independent means, and who resides in the most ...
... meeting of the Merthyr Board of Guardians last week, Mr. D. E. Jones applied for permission to visit the paupers in the workhouse to read the and impart unsectarian religions instruction to those who might desire it. Mr Jones has, however, been informed ...