... Driffield Workhouse. Valiant has a bank book and pays for his food in the Workhouse, pre- ferring the house to private lodgings. He now asked the Board of Guardians if he could have hiB coffin made at his own expense and brought to the Workhouse. Several ...

... On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the Aberystwyth Workhouse touching the death of John Dunn, a native of Bradford, but for last three months had been an inmate of the j Workhouse. Dunn was found in the lavatory oi the sick ward with a big gash ...

... Corselas, has been visited at Kirkham Workhouse by a Catholic priest and a Spanish gentleman, and she persist* in lier story of privation during 16 days without food in an old boat. At St. Anne s on Friday the Workhouse master received a letter from a Liver- ...

... weekly meeting of the Cardiff Board of Guardians was held 011 Saturday, at the Union Workhouse, Mr C. W, David in the chair. STATISTICS. The Master of the Workhouse reported that during the past iveek there had been 18 admis- sions, 15 diseharge3, snd ...

... with another. At Neath, the Guardians were unable to apply a workhouse test, because the workhouse W'6S so confined, and bad in its arrangements; but at Pontypridd and Merthyr there were workhouses, and there had been no restriction in the test. What were ...

... SOUTH WALES S. CARDIFF. Workhouse Vistting Committee. -? .1 ? j(:?- ing of the Union Workhouse 'Visiting C ...

... At Stockport Police Court on Tuesday M. Fay and David Reid, young men, plea.ded guilty to having set fire to the Union Workhouse buildings,, endangering 800 lives. Fay had expressed a determination to do something that would get him penal servitude, a ...

... STRANGE DROWNING CASB AT TREHARRIS, Clara Maggs, a young imoecilc woman, was ti 1 cently confined at the Merthyr Workhouse. Larf rid»y she made her esca pe from tl»* premises. On Monday, her body was found by »' i™°,re« r n,e? A,Va!ter M'TO in the Glamor; ...

... they ought to make It a condition that those who had a legal right to relief should be compelled to dwell in a Workhouse. The object of Workhouses was chiefly for the purposes of aPplying a sharp test to able bodied paupers, with a View to get rid of the ...

... survivor of the battle, of Navarino, a seaman knamed William Doran, aged 89, is an inmate of St. George's (Hanover-square) Workhouse. It is ...

... that tile public trill doubt- less be deeply moved on hearing oi the treatment to which certain inmates of the Cardiff Workhouse have been subjected. The Board of Guardians there had iusulted these helpless and unfortunate people by offer- ing them ...

... In London nine out of every 100 persons die in the Workhouse. In many places iu England, such as Bristol and Wolverhampton, more than half the old people of 65 and upwards are paupers. In prosperous Birmingham 39 in every 100 are paupers. 100 are paupers ...