casual ward

I stood and debated with two other men, wise in the knowledge of casual wards, as to where we should go.

The casual wards to be extended to accommodate about forty more men.

Along the north side of the workhouse were casual wards and female sick wards.

John Pedder, the window cleaner, was to render assistance in the casual wards as and when necessary, his wages being increased to £1 per week.

Then casual wards full after.

The persistence of high unemployment in the post-war years continued to make an impact on the institution, particularly on the casual wards.

The workhouse buildings included a 40-bed infirmary, piggeries, and casual wards for vagrants.

This accounted for my ignorance of English ways in general and casual wards in particular, and my curiosity concerning the same.

Conditions in the casual wards were worse than in the relieving rooms and deliberately designed to discourage vagrants, who were considered potential trouble-makers and probably disease-ridden.

Orwell gives a historical background of how hospital wards began as casual wards for lepers and became places for medical students to learn using the bodies of the poor.

We knew that the casual wards were over-crowded; also, that if we begged from farmer or villager, there was a large likelihood of our going to jail for fourteen days.

Near to the entrance were the casual wards for tramps and vagrants and the relieving rooms, where paupers were housed until they had been examined by a medical officer.

In the summer of 1905, Robert Connolly, a groom aged thirty-eight, applied for admission to the casual wards, saying that he came from Wellingborough, and was on his way to London.

He was in charge of the casual wards as well as of all 'workhouse' inmates and 'test'workers - the latter being men sent on trial for twenty-four hours a week by the relieving officer.

City centre lodging houses and 'casual wards' run by local authorities housed many thousands of vagrants at night, but during the Second World War, when work became plentiful, the numbers dropped to a few thousand.

There will need to be, in the place of the British casual wards, simple but comfortable inns with a low tariff--controlled to a certain extent no doubt, and even in some cases maintained, by the State.

The problem of poverty with which the student is concerned is primarily an industrial one,- and only secondly in its manifestations,-[found]in the mill, in the mine or at the docks,- not in casual wards or on the embankment.

There was a half of the premises, and the casual wards there they, course I tell you they used to have to bath and then they used to have to do chopping wood and sort of work like, like that.

But in England they return, not as prodigals, but as outcasts still, as vagrants and pariahs, to be doubted and flouted by their country brethren, to sleep in jails and casual wards, or under the hedges, and to live the Lord knows how.

In two weeks of December the number of male vagrants had risen to 371, which included 252 ex-soldiers, and the master was of the opinion that the increase was due to the fact that many of the unemployed in London were returning to their own towns through the casual wards.

The public assistance officer, Mr. W. G. Daniels, reported that the displaced casuals had been accommodated in lodging houses in Bedford; these were inadequate and in October 1940, the committee applied to the Ministry of Health for release of the casual wards for their 'proper purpose'.