... 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 ...

... RADIUM FOR WORKHOUSE The medical officer to the Sculcoates Board of Guardians has asked the Board to spend £200 on radium for the treatment of cancer in paupers. as an innovation. will be considered. The request, though regarded ...

... 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 ...

... VEGETARIAN DIET IN WORKHOUSES At the meeting of the Chelmsford Board of Gurdins the question vegetarian menu was brought up. One guardian stated that if six paupers were fed vegetables and six on meat, the former would be ’’foolish, flabby, and faddy ...

... RA IT) DEATH IN A WO) whose A Welsh bard, Richard Owen, poems are widely known in the Principality, has died in Festinoig Workhouse. He had been promised a grant of £100 by the Prime him. Minister, but died before the money reached ...

... The Modebn Fadfeb.— An inmate of tie Winchester Workhouse has written to the master to die effect that naira* be supplied with tohsood, sugar, and tea will not remain in the homn. * THE IDEALFOOD for children from birth HORLICK’S MALTED MIL 6C coetsias ...

... 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 deceased had reached the age of 112 years, and had beon an inmate of the Limerick Workhouse for the past two years. Up to the time she went into the workhouse she enjoyed good health, and was in full possession of her faculties. ...