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Indeed a better education is now given in Workhouses than can be obtained for children under twelve years of age at any paid school that we know of. For instance: "What day is this?" "Monday." "What sort of a day is it?" "Very fine." "Why is it fine?" "Because the sun shines, and it does not rain." "Is rain a bad thing, then?" "No." "What is it useful for?"
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
All about was that curious odour that seems inseparable from the corridors of steamers, hospitals, workhouses and the like an odour which is a compound of cleanliness, antiseptic and cold enamelled iron. Such surroundings depressed me. I felt, more acutely than ever before, the distance between Rosa's environment and what I would have had it.
"Some approximation to the amount of the immense mortality that prevailed may be gleaned from the published tables, which show that within that calamitous period between the end of 1845 and the conclusion of the first quarter of 1851, as many as 61,260 persons died in the hospitals and sanitary institutions, exclusive of those who died in the Workhouses and auxiliary Workhouses.
According to the teaching of Jesus, as we read it in the Sermon on the Mount, and as we find it illustrated in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, every pauper is pretty sure of a front seat in heaven; and every man of property or good income is equally sure of warm quarters in hell. But you do not meet parsons in workhouses, though some of them get a good deal of outdoor relief.
For example: The cloths, stuffs, serges, druggets, &c, which are brought to market in the west and northern parts of England, and in Norfolk, as they are bought without the dressing and making up, it may be said of them that they are brought to market unfinished, and they are bought there again by the wholesale dealers, or cloth-workers, tuckers, and merchants, and they carry them to their warehouses and workhouses, and there they go through divers operations again, and are finished for the market; nor, indeed, are they fit to be shown till they are so; the stuffs are in the grease, the cloth is in the oil, they are rough and foul, and are not dressed, and consequently not finished; and as our buyers do not understand them till they are so dressed, it is no proper finishing the goods to bring them to market before they are not, indeed, properly said to be made till that part is done.
We should only draft them on to the Estate in small numbers, as we were prepared to deal with them, and I am quite satisfied that without the legal methods of maintaining order that are acted upon so freely in workhouses and other similar institutions, we should have as perfect obedience to Law, as great respect for authority, and as strong a spirit of kindness pervading all ranks throughout the whole of the community as could be found in any other institution in the land.
The Fever Act Central Board of Health Fever Hospitals Changes in the Act Outdoor Attendance Interment of the Dead The Fever in 1846 Cork Workhouse Clonmel Tyrone Newry Sligo Leitrim Roscommon Galway Fever in 1847 Belfast Death-rate in the Workhouses Swinford Cork Dropsy Carrick-on-Shannon Macroom Bantry Abbey Dublin Cork Street Hospital Applications for Temporary Hospital accommodation Relapse a remarkable feature Number of cases received Percentage of Mortality Weekly Cost of Patients Imperfect Returns Scurvy The cause of it Emigration Earlier Schemes of Emigration Mr.
For the worst of their kind special lexicons are designed, which, like prisons and workhouses, admit only the disreputable, as though Victor Hugo's definition "L'argot, c'est le verbe devenu forçat" were amply justified. The journals, too, which take their material where they find it, give to many specimens a life as long as their own.
As I left the building feeling very sad over this information, I could not help wishing that these creatures, guilty of the crime of poverty, had the nourishing fare given to the criminals in our common gaol at Pembroke on the Ottawa. Now the workhouses are by no means crowded; the Ballina workhouse, for instance is empty enough to afford a wing as a temporary barracks for some military.
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