This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE. "With light in her looks, she entered the chambers of sickness . - - - . . Many a languid head, upraised as she entered, Turned on its pillow of pain to gaze while she passed, for her presence Fell on their hearts like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison. And as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE. "With light in her looks, she entered the chambers of sickness . - - - . . Many a languid head, upraised as she entered, Turned on its pillow of pain to gaze while she passed, for her presence Fell on their hearts like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison. And as she looked around, she saw how death, the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it for ever." T N the present day of active benevolence and -*■ prompt investigation of wrong, all classes of the poor, oppressed, and sinful, seem to be brought under the eye of the public, and assistance, solace, and (as far as may be) remedy, are provided; not, indeed, in any degree equal to the demand, for as riches increase and luxuries become more and more necessaries of life, so in proportion does poverty increase and wretchedness and woe superabound. Of all misery in the mass, however, no department was so long overlooked as the misery of workhouse paupers. Jails have long been visited and reformed, so that the cry is rather of the over-pampering than of the neglect of the criminal that has been overtaken by justice; lunatic asylums have opened their long-closed doors to official inspectors, and the deeds of oppression and cruelty they once witnessed are now tales of the past; factory children have found their pleader, and the long hours of toil have been shortened; but who could say a word for the poor in workhouses? It needed the revelations of the Strand union, and of the casual ward in Lambeth workhouse, and other strange stories heard now and then, but too soon forgotten, to arouse the general public to investigate the wrong that might possibly be found even in an institution, with paid officials, ...
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