How Vagrants are Dealt with Bath.—The workhouse'at Bath is situated on a high tabic land, about two miles from the police station in the town, from which there is an almost continued ascent. All vagrants or tramps requiring relief, are now compelled to apply at the police station, where they are examined by one of the four inspectors, and, if found to be destitute, the able-bodied have tickets given them for the workhouse, the qld apd infirm being sent tq the lodging houses in the town. At the workhouse they receive supper, bed, and breakfast, but they are made to break stones for three hours the next morning. Under this system vagrancy is now diminishing in Path at th§ rate pf 30 per centi
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2303, 23 September 1870, Page 2
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124Untitled Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2303, 23 September 1870, Page 2
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