... London's Greatness Thousands of poor Londoners will spend their Christmas in the workhouse, and indeed many will think themselves lucky to spend it there, for the workhouses have more applicants than they can find room for. Those unfortunates who fail to ...

... over 35, OCX) dolls and 25,000 toys contributed by readers of Truth for distribution among the children in the hospitals, workhouses and Poor Law Schools of London. There were dolls of all sorts and sizes, representing every country in the world, and some ...

... the Court, Mr. Otho Stuart has staged a curious little two act play which is really nothing more than an amusing satire on workhouse administration, or mal administration. 1 say amusing because, though the first act is a realistic picture of tragic poverty ...

... SCHOOL IN VIENNA by the Nuns who are in char e of their education. FOODLESS MEN BEING SUPPLIED WITH SUSTENANCE in one of the workhouses in the Austrian capital. FORAGING FOR FOOD IN VIENNA Searching the rubbish in the market. POOR CHILDREN AND THE PICTURE ...

... new standardised road signals are to be put up at the same time. Really these Ministries will, put us all in Bedlam or the workhouse. They ^re all bent on doing their bit at our expense at the same time and in the most summary fashion, and we will have to ...

... in London of the flying claims set up by Captain E. G. Chamberlain. VISITORS Tha PRINCE and the POSTMAN THE QUEEN AT THE WORKHOUSE THE QUEEN AND THE CLOWN THE PRINCE AND HIS TENANTS tne tjueen ana tne rrince ot Wales on Friday paid a visit to the Duchy ...

... only too much reason to suspect that, except in regard to the gross coarseness of the Poplar machinery of corruption, that workhouse was a fair type of scores of others in almost all parts of the metropolis. There are, unfortunately, some bosses, apparently ...

... irre sponsible men and women and youths and girls These unfortunate people help to multiply the unfit and fill our prisons, workhouses, and rescue homes. It may be recalled that the Royal Commission upon the Feeble-minded in 1908, reported that there were ...

... better days, infirm, old, and sometimes blind owning nothing, and in capable of earning anything; a gentleman, now in the workhouse, whose father fought at Trafalgar; his insane wife, and numbers of others receive small pensions from the Society, for which ...

... will pay all taxes up to a £5 bet. And as they have told us that this is impossible, and that they will be driven to the workhouse by such a concession, this is an astounding volte face and must injure the cause of the majority. For what is possible with ...

... worse many insane asylums had been destroyed or requisitioned by the enemy, and their inmates sent provisionally to the work-houses of Hoogstraete and Merxplas, where, huddled together, without discrimination, were prisoners, invalids, juvenile offenders ...

... only sad it is a revelation of the supposed strength of family feeling. Out of 528 old men and women entitled to leave a workhouse on old age pensions, only thirty-seven were sure that they would be welcomed by relatives. As a matter of fact, Miss Sellers ...