Joseph Rogers, M.D. : reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer / edited with a preface, by Prof. Thorold Rogers.

  • Rogers, Joseph, 1820 or 21-1889.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Joseph Rogers, M.D. : reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer / edited with a preface, by Prof. Thorold Rogers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Board to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst. respecting the decision communicated to the Guardians of the Westminster Union in the letter which we addressed to them by the Board on the 18th ult. upon the charges preferred against Mr. Bliss, the master of the Workhouse, and recently investigated by their Inspectors, Mr. Hedley and Mr. Taylor. “ The Board direct me to state, in reply, that the charges to which they referred in that letter were the following— “ That Mr. Bliss twice threw water from a bucket over an inmate named Ellen Coleman. “ That he kicked a woman named Ann Lane on the hack of the thigh [she was sixty-eight years old], the bruise caused thereby was about four inches across. “ That he kicked a hoy named James Daley twice on the back [he was about thirteen years old, and was a very good boy]. “ That he was in the habit of swearing, and of using expressions of an objectionable character when irritated. “ That he had exercised no supervision as regards the entries in his portion of the Workhouse Medical Relief Book. « That he had not entered in the Provision Accounts