| It was Christmas Day in the workhouse, and the inmates sat down to a meal of roast beef and pork, followed by plum pudding and fruit. |
| Unemployed millhands and weavers were faced with the choice of the workhouse or starvation, and rioted. |
| Only belatedly was it discovered that a drain in a workhouse near the well had been accidentally ruptured by a pickaxe. |
| In 1865 a medical magazine set up a special commission to inquire into London workhouse infirmaries. |
| This need was satisfied around 1837 when casual wards were provided within each workhouse union. |
| After being whipped and branded on the scaffold, he had to stay in a workhouse for 12 years. |
