A WINTER PROSPECT.
The depression of trade throughout England is felt with equal severity m the metropolis, and our workhouse doors are already besieged by applicants for relief. Many of our workhouses have at present hundreds m advance of what were m the wards at this season last year, and we have not yet reached the frosty weather. Boards of guardians will have to deal sharply with the ablebodied, who regard the workhouse as their shelter and home during the winter season, and a judicious application of the workhouse test will do much to weed out the idlera. We do not suggest severe, but rather the adoption of preventive measures, which go a long way to effect a cure. From present prospects of dull trade and a bad harvest, we may certainly reckon upon all our workhouses being crowded to excess next winter. — Metropolitan.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 966, 3 December 1879, Page 2
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144A WINTER PROSPECT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 966, 3 December 1879, Page 2
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