The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-04 00:00:00

SELECT VESTRY.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Select Vestry was held
in the parish offices, Brownlow hill, at ten o'clock yesterday.
Mr, Churchwarden Woodruff presided; and the other members
present were Messrs. Bairstow, Owen, Whitby, Sy red, Bold
Satchel!, Denton, Jackson, Chesney, Shaw, Syers, Richard!
son, Critchty, Hand, Mellor, Luft, Taylor, Crawford, and
Cr elfin.

WORKHOUSE COMMIT IRE.
The proceedings of this Committee were read. It appeared
that dating the past week the number admitted into the vagrant
sheds were 302 males, 72 females, and 21 children ; in all
395. The number of sick cases in hospital on the 25th alto.
was 699, including 67 fever and 39 itch. The total number in
the house on the 25th ult. was 2,467.
The visitors' book contained the following entry by Mr. J.
Browne, inspector of schools :—" The children in the schools
passed a fair examination, under the circumstances; but the
majority of those present could not read. The standard in such
a place as this workhouse can never, I apprehend,
be high. I find that two pupil teachers from
Kirkdale have been brought here. That, I conceive, is a
breach of their engagement. Notwithstanding the assistant
master's illness, the services of the pupil teachers would not
have been required, if the boys in the house had been
regularly sent to Kirkdale as they formerly were. I am
informed that the liirkdale schools would now accommodate
more than 300 additional children. It follows, therefore,
that as many pauper children are deprived of education by the
recent arrangements cf the guardians, they are thrown upon
the ragged schools supported by private benevolence. This is
a matter which concerns all managers of ragged schools in
Liverpool, as the additional burthen imposed upan them by
the guardians, and which they certainly ought not to bear,
must probably exceed £2,000 a year, if the children are
boarded or lodged as well as educated."
It was also stated in the proceedings, that Catherine Joyce
was brought from tho Borough Gaol into the house in a violent
state of mania, which was attributed by Mr. Leather, the
medical officer, to the solitary confinement system in operation
there. It was resolved that Mr. Leather be requested to
report more fully in the case, and also as to.the effect of soli-
tary confinement in any other asylum case admitted to
the workhouse during the last threw years, A special meeting
had been held on Monday last, to enquire into the case of
Margaret Daly, about whose lunacy a question had been
raised. The workhouse officers still maintained that the
woman was. in a state of lunacy.

Mr. Shaw, in moving that the proceedings be confirmed,
said he could not allow the observations of Mr.
Brown to pass unnoticed. (Hear, hear.) He thought an
inspector who came down there once in every three or six
months, was much less likely to know the requirements of a
ause and a parish like that, than gentlemen who were engaged
there day by day. With regard to the observatio❑ upon the
pupil teachers being brought to that house from Kirkdale, he
conceived they had a perfect right to do so, The Kirkdale
house was an integral part of the workhouse, and he presumed
they had an equal right to bring teachers to one part of the
house as the other. (Hear, hear.)
The proceedings were confirmed.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The proceedings of this Committee did not contain anything
of importance. Mr. Owen moved their confirmation, which
was carried without diacuesion.