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... WORKHOUSE DISTURBANCE. Described refractory pauper, Mary Smith, a Sheffield woman, was fined 205., or seven days’ imprisonment, Doncaster, yesterday, for creating a disturbance at Doncaster Workhouse on Saturday night. Mrs. Dorothy Lambert, a portress ...
... still in the early 3o’.s, has taken a practical method of learning the truth about Christmastide in the workhouse. After Christmastide tour workhouses, let say hope is that the new regulations about to, come before the House of Commons will set new standard ...
... The Workhouse Menu. The tramp must have been a comparatively happy individual yesterday, tor on that day came into force the new Order issued by the Minister of Health abolishing the stone breaking test in the workhouses, and, what would be more welcome ...
... WORKHOUSE INMATE’S DEATH. Fractured Spine After 30-Feet Jump. At inquest held at Pontefract Workhouse yesterday on George Barraclough (41), platelayer, of 13, North Bailcygate, Pontefract, who died in the Union Infirmary on Sunday, it was stated that ...
... NAMING A WORKHOUSE. Why Duchess of York's Cousin Objects. Captain G. F. Bowes-Lyon, Redbourn House, Redbourn, Herts, wrote to the Hemcl Hempstead Public Assistance Committee complaining of their action in naming the Poor Law Institution, Redbourn House ...
... Letter from Workhouse. Four days later the doctor received a letter from Garcia written from Southampton Workhouse, saying: I positive you will forgive impersonation and magnanimously acquit Captain Townsend of deliberate and calculated fraud. On no account ...
... THE “WORKHOUSE BRAT” ASSET TO THE STATE. ■' Sheffield as Pioneer in Dealing With Pauper Children. [FROM OUR OWN LONDON, Tuesday. ** Children and the Poor Law and Vagrancy were the problems discussed at the Conference of Public Assistance Officers, concluded ...
... When Lunatics Were Chained in Workhouse A PICTURE of the Sheffield workhouse in 1781, where lunatics were chained and women slept two in a bed, was conjured up by Miss Mary Walton, librarian of the Sheffield Collection of the Central Library, in a lecture ...
... BEER FOR WORKHOUSE OFFICIALS. Barnsley Problem. DESIRABLE, ADVISABLE, OR ...
... to the ancient Palace (afterwards workhouse and house correction) to which it gave the name, was notable even down to the coronation of George IV., wihen neighbouring hotel proprietor, by filling thousands of botttles with its “sanctified water,” drained ...
... At the age of 70, the death occurred yesterday of Air. Richard Reynolds, master of Hayfield Union workhouse, position had held over 27 years. Before going to Hayfield, Air.. Reynolds had been labour master Ashtonunder-Lyne, and porter at Kirkham. He was ...
... Dew confirmed a statement that he preferred prison to the workhouse. “In prison,’’ he said, there is better food, lectures, concerts, and magic lanterns. I know very well what the workhouse is; it is more like a menagerie.” Mr. Lloyd George: You seem ...