... From Army to Workhouse. Tragedies of the veteran were hidden in the report recently made to the Southwark Board of Guardians that the following are inmates of Christchurch Workhouse : John Augustus Underwood, aged seventythree, gentleman cadet East India ...

... At yesterday's meeting of the City of London Union it wav reported by the master of the workhouse that the Tneaday's dilutor, when tinned meat was served, had become very unpopular, and that last Tuesday 134 men and 58 women absented themselves from the ...

... bildren of admittedly healthy parents, born in Leigh Workhouse, were vaccinated days after their birth, the operator being the medical officer, and the material the standard lymph, supplied by the Local Government Board. A few days afterwards the children ...

... remarkable increase in outdoor relief, but the rise in the numbers entering work-houses has continued. In no year of the history of the poor law has the population in the work-houses been greater for IDecember. ...

... of residents in the workhouse, is very markedly reducing, if it has not already to a large extent abolished, the shrinking aversion which the thought of such residence formerly inspired. The question is asked, then, whether workhouses are not too comfortable ...

... 131, Hope Street, Leigh, at present an inmate of the Workhouse, said she was a single woman employed on the pit brow. She was the mother of Frank Norris. aged 22 days, who was born at the Workhouse and died there on Wednesday. He was a healthy child until ...

... committee to recommend a better system of audit for municipal accounts. His touching speech to the inmates of Battersea Workhouse on Christmas Day will not be forgotten. For twenty years he advocated the calling up of the militia in the period of the ...

... The Last Resource. Mr. Edward Terry, says the Playgoer. once in the kindness of his heart took • girl out of the workhouse to train as • servant. But she was altogether hopeless, and was continually breaking plates. dishes and everything she laid hands ...

... A Prisoner's Ruse. An inmate of a Montgomeryshire workhouse was locked in the mortuary as punishment for misbehaviour. A corpse was lying in a coffin, but this did not disconcert the reprobate, who proceeded to avenge his treatment. Lifting the body out ...

... difficulty lies in the case of the lower middle-classes. Many decline to let father, mother, or other aged relatives go to the workhouse or take parish relief although they feel the pinch of having to maintain them. They suggest to their relatives that the ss ...

... company is a poor ambition, yet homage is homage ; and smoke is smoke, whether it comes out of the chimney of a palace or of a workhouse. To govern men you must either excel them in their accomplishments or despise them. To rule men we must be men. Our wisdom ...

... just been proved at about £4,000. Two years ago, according to the Sussex Daily News. he applied for admission to the workhouse, and his relatives paid for his maintenance, but refused to have anything to do with him. Beyond the fact that the man had ...