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... The Workhouse Badge. Complaint WAS made at S. Asaph Board of Guardians on Friday of the branding of workhouse children. Mr. T. Pennant Williams (Prestatyn) said tbat when travelling in the train with a boy who had been sent out to service from the workhouse ...
... WORKHOUSE FARE. YOUNG MOTHER MADE TO WORK ON BREAD AND WATER. A young woman who, although she had a baby three and a half months old. was put on a bread-and-water diet at the Newiegton eorkhouso and ordered to scrub floors. fainted twice when she appeared ...
... WORKHOUSE ',SAMARITANS. Oft-told is the story that Poor Law Guardians and Workhouse Officials, as a cusobined body entrusted with the ad • tration of the Poor Law, are over-worked, and that their duties, though somewhat multifarious, are continually ...
... Board of Guardians. THE WORKHOUSE AFFAIR. INGUIRY The members preeout at the fortnightly meeting of the Board on Friday were Mr. J. C. Harford, chairman, presiding; R. C. Jonas, Messrs. Evan Davies, Lampeter; Inglis Jones, Derry Ormond; J. 0 .Marsden ...
... Bread Stations. CONWAY GUARDIANS ADOPTING NEW SYSTEM. Workhouse Services. The monthly meeting of the Conway Guardians was held at the NVoabhouse on Friday. The members present were Mr. G. W. Roberts (Chairman), Mrs. B. C. Jones, Mrs. Jones (Gyffin), MTS ...
... Birmingham, who was an inmate of the. Conway Workhouse. The story was told to Mr. Owen Rowlauds and the Mayor, on Monday. at a Special Police Court, when Auster was charged with absconding from the Workhouse and stealing clothing to the value of one sovereign ...
... are present. There are 144 feeble-minded persons in the workhouses of West Wales besides others in the lunatic asylum at Carmar- then and others who are at large, and in the Newcastle Emlyn Workhouse, which it is proposed to set apart as an asylum for the ...
... to suppo - t a resolution urging the Government to giYe Guardians the power to detain women of Int moral character in the workhouse. The Chairman (Mr. J. Frimston, Rhyl), in moving the resolution, said he thought it would be a very good thing. Mr. I. Batho ...
... Newcastle Emlyti Workhouse, it was stated. hail only fifteen or sixteen inmate,. at present, although the original aerconiniodation was fur 250. Mr. Hugh R. Williams. inspector of the Local Government Board. *aid the rlaasifiration of workhouse inmates was ...
... relieving officer for permission to go to the workhouse as ho was homelem. The Chairman : It is said that you spend your mum). on drink. Evan.: I cannot get money to buy drink. Mr A. H. Richards: The workhouse u not the place fur David Evans and his family ...
... d in the workhouses of Weet Wales. The guardians had no compulsory powers to deal with the large number outside the workhouses, but legislation would probably give them such powers. Mr. A. It. Wi'liana; said the unpopularity of the workhouse in the past ...
... probation. M•. &laud*: Dr. Finlay told me that when • patient reentered he was not to the Workhouse. Mr. Conniff: This young man not want to go to the Workhouse. Rev. David Phillips void that he knew of the case and could we into it if it were left to ...