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... AN IRISH WORKHOUSE. ITS AMBULANCE SEIZED FOB DEBT. At Kflrush on Tuesday the workhouse ambu- la.nce and horse, while proceeding through the streetB for a patient to take to the Infirmary, were seized by a sheriff's officer. They were taken to the pound ...

... Government inspe c- tor, who held a public inquiry into the manage- ment of the Newport Workhouse, and the alle- gations which had been made against Dr. Macor- mack, the workhouse medical officer, and the board's decisions were as follows With refer- ence to the ...

... TOBACCO IN THE WORKHOUSE. The following ode to a tobacco-pipe was written by one Isaac Hawkins Browne, born in 1705, died 1760, and is now dedicated, without permission, to Mr. R. Cory, who objects to the use of tobacco as savouring too much of luxury ...

... WORKHOUSE MANNERS, rlSCon, a sturdy labourer, whose place of bL was given as the City of London Union, North London Police Court t e Prtgoay w't'1 tfifractory conduct. On Monday fellow.^ner ^nring dinner peremptorily ordered a to pass the salt, and when ...

... 253 198 170 Even now he found there were some workhouses where the consumption of stimulants was exces- sive. At Chichester Workhouse the rate per head was 21 3 4dj as compared with 2s 3J in Cardiff Workhouse in 1885. For the benefit of those who held extreme ...

... PRtSON v. WORKHOUSE. ) He Preferred the Former, A grotesque personal by is John Murphy. A magnificent shock ot grizzty hatr surmounts th ...

... TENDEKS FOR WORKHOUSES. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—Your Note on the question of supply- in workhouses was much needed, and may be extended with advantage to other public bodies. The lothness of tradesmen to compete arises from other causes than the favouritism ...

... Poor in the Workhouses. ] Is there no nerve or sense of responsibility left in British Ministers or members of the House of Commons ? Day after day the most shocking revela. tions are made of the cruelties perpetrated in the London workhouses and hospitals ...

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... ALCOHOL IN WORKROUSES. Ins view of the controversy as to the use of Iwit alcohol in workhouses, which has recently am been stimulated into fresh activity by the ter Blue Book returns, the pamphlet lately issued ' fa by Dr. A. SmEN, of Cardiff, on Indoor ...

... THE CARDIFF WORKHOUSE. THE writer of the letter to Malvolio in Shake- speare's comedy tells him that some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. This is equally true of wisdom some are born wise, some ac- quire ...