... WORKHOUSE OR IRWITHOIISR. A writer on the history of workhouses, reminds us that these inatitations were established in order to enforce the labour teat at • time when relief was often granted on false and frivolous pretences. That is quite true, bat ...

... PLAYING CARDS IN WORKHOUSES. The Guardians of a London Union have had more than one brilliant idea, and the last of them appears to be the provision of playing cards, at the ratepayer's expense. to enable the workhouse inmates to ' kill time.' The Local ...

... Lims INVALID •ND THS DC011.68. The Duchess of Sutherland, visiting the children's ward at Stoke-on-Trent Workhouse, clime to a not in labia lay a little girl recovering from a serious illness. A gengle iuquiry whether the sufferer wag bitter elicittd ...

... Oxbridge Board of guardians, to be allowed to enter the workhouse for a few d;tys, as an ordinary inmate, in order that he might obtain at Erst hand, information %ith regard to the routine of workhouse life. The rev. gentleman was willing to pay the cost ...

... of workhouses and workhouse infirmaries, while 11,809 are brought up in barrack schools. This is not a state of things which commends itself to the Association, who deplore the fact that so many children should still be maintained in workhouses, and ...

... Government Board, contains some interesting remarks by one of the inspectors on the character of the inmates in metropolitan workhouses, supported by returns from one Board of Guardians who made a careful overhaul of their nine hundred inmates. One does not ...

... all who wore entitled to attend, it has been found that some of the guests were attired in workhouse uniform. Not only has that been so, but many of the workhouse inmates were men who had the clasps for the most stubbornly contested battles, or engagements ...

... the relief of the workhouse and infirmary. Whilst, however, ofd-age pensions and medical benefits are helping to dim'- nish pauperism as a whole, the erection a palatial infirmaries, cottage homes, etc., tends to keep up the workhouse population, more ...

... LONDON THE MILD OF THE WORKHOUSE. An inquest at the of London, touching the death of a man bad taken his own life, furnishes another exatgple of the horror with which many thousandi of the respectable poor regard admission to th workhouse. It may be that this ...

... they knew there was nothing for them but the workhouse directly they were discharged. It is not creditable to the State that the army should be to so many men who have served her, a preparation for the workhouse. The illness which leads to their discharge ...

... s. For (maniple, it was reported to a Board of Guardians, only this week, that there had been among the inmates of tl e workhouse • feeble minded man who had given a good deal of trouble, but had not sufficiently last his mental balance to justify his ...

... prison to the workhouse. The shelter of a gaol as not the kind of hospitality to which men turn in ordinary circumstances, and their case must be desperate indeed before they resort to such an extremity. No doubt there are many men in the workhouse who ill ...