... SOLDIERS IN WORKHOUSES. An interesting Parliamentary papar was issued on Wednesday night giving return cf discharged soldiers chargeable on the poor rates of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the mor.lh of December, 1897, as inmates vorkhouses end in ...

... A WORKHOUSE DIFFICULTY IX THE FYLDK. .jt the Guardians are threatened respecting; the new workhouse to ,tn at a cost of £40.000. The work has premium winners, Haywood meeting letter was read from the first premium winners, Crickmay and Sons, London, claiming ...

... of the workhouse diet. It must be recognised, whenever this question of the treatment of paupers is discussed, that the inmates of workhouses are mostly feeble folk, and that large number of them are ill such degree that, but for the workhouses, they would ...

... FRACAS AT BLACKBURN WORKHOUSE. A DISGRACEFUL INCIDENT. a meeting of tbo Blackburn Board uf Guardians on Saturday morning, the Clerk read the following report tbe workhouse master (Mr. R. Tiffin) :—1 regret to report that Wednesday night 10 o'clock I ...

... | TEMPER ANCHE IN THE WORKHOUSE. eee « nardians, with a view of The Holborn ‘Board of G uraging temperance among the and officials of the workhouses infirmeri their control, have decided to give an allowanve of addition to salary in li eu of beer. Tt ...

... SINGULAR WORKHOUSE STORY. A novel point under the Married Women's Property Act lias been brought under the notice of the magistrate at the Police-court by Mr. l-'reko Palmer, solicitor, who, acting on behalf of the Marylehone Guardians, applied for order ...

... TRVP NCE WORKHOUSE The Holborn Board of Guardians, with a view of encouraging temperance among the nurses and other officials of the workhouees and infirmaries under tieir control, have decided to give an annual allowance of money in addition to salary ...

... BLACKBURN WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. OF THE AUDIT. .At the meeting the Blackburn Board of Guardians, Saturday, inquired the cause the delay of tbe Local Government Board's sanction to the proposed of salaries of the Master and Matron. The clerk then read extracts ...

... BEER-MONET IN WORKHOUSES. Aa the question of allowing the officials employed by the St. Marylebone Guardians an allowance of money place of will shortly be brought before the board, Lieutenant-colonel G. H. Verne}' haa taken the trouble to ascertain what ...

... CHRISTMAS AT THE WITHINGTON WORKHOUSE. The inmates, young and old, at the Withington Workhouse, to the number of 1,960, have enjoyed heartily on any previous ooccasion the, to them, rare delights of feast and entertainment. On Christmas Day the usual ...

... SINGULAR WORKHOUSE STORY. A novel point under the Married Women's Property Act has been brought under the notice of the magistrate at the Marylebono Police-court by Mr. Freke Palmer, solicitor, who. acting on behalf of the Marylebone Guardians, applied ...

... THE BLACKBURN WORKHOUSE SCANDALS. The decision of the Local Government Board in regaid to the recent inquiry at Blackburn Workhouse was communicated to the guardians on Saturday. The Board state that they consider the master greatly to blame for not informing ...