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... THE WORKHOUSE OF THE WORLD. At a meeting of lical authorities Hull Saturday. it wasjreported that the gipsies at present encamped Huli, embarked at Corfu, but were Roumanian and Servian gipsies, members of a class wandering about Turkey. They stated that ...
... Workhouse to GO. PROPOSED BIG CHANGES THE POOR LAW. The report last night of the Local Government Committee on the transfer of the functions of the poor law authorities in England and Wales recommends the abolition of Boards of Guardians and of Poor Law ...
... The spectre of the workhouse BEFORE the state pension was introduced, the spectre of the workhouse haunted the old. They feared it more than death itself. Indeed, some literally starved themselves to death to avoid ever passing through its gates. Within ...
... WORKHOUSE REVELATIONS. Thursday afternoon Dr Danford Thomas held an inquest at Marylebone lload, London, relative the death Mary Regan, aged Gl, an inmate of the Workhouse. It appeared from the evidence of some relatives tbat the deceased had been inmate ...
... THE WORKHOUSE EMEUTE. EXTRAORDINARY STATE OF AFFAIRS, i One hundred police, under Mr W. Bodkin, R.M., proceeded to New Ross Workhouse on Saturday to arrest the women who had assaulted the (xuardians,but failed make any apprehensions, as the women re mained ...
... a duck lay whe bed died 1a the Beown- Wee use fromm poeumoma. The Coroner expiained tha “Thursday the die sed went to th workhouse, but was not seea by a doctor. Th we kK to the lodgiag-house um which he «as stays bat me eleven o’clack at ilinas he was ...
... Workhouse on Fire. BY PRIVATE Wien) At hali-past twoo’clock this morning a fire of an oct in 3 room ased a3 a chil- dren’s nursery in the “ H block Workhouse and Infirmary, London. Aa svon as it was discovered the alarm bell was rung, and so well trained ...
... Christmas the workhouse GRAMPIAN 7.45 CHRISTMAS In the workhouse and Fenner Fashions has to cope with the “Christmas Rush” on the last working day before Christmas. Mabel Is getting the bird, Paddy is busy doing Mr Fenner’s shopping and Tony is desperately ...
... DESERTED WORKHOUSE. Exodus Led by One~Legged Old Man. v All the able-bodied men m (Essex) Workhouse have departed owing to the spring weather. One of the most vatuaible of tham was a man aged seventy-three, with wooden leg and subject to fits, who was ...
... STIMULANTS IN WORKHOUSES. white paper issued yesterday morning shows the quantities spirits, wines, and malt liquors consumed in each workhouse in England and Wales, Sootland and Ireland during the year 1885. The totals for England and Wales are*:—Spirits ...
... WORKHOUSE WAGES. Considerable amusement was occasioned the Thames Police Court this morning by the unusual demand made by a Turk who had been inmate of a workhouse for two months. During the time he was there, he bRd to work at stone-breaking, and when ...
... THE WORKHOUSE REBELLION. The disturbances at New ° finally quelled until midnight of 60 police have now arrived, and continually duty the workhouse, . . feared. The local force yeeterday deemed it fcule take the ringleaders ' then, free after however ...