[808] Workhouse Regulations (Dietaries and Accounts) Order, 1900, in Thirtieth Annual Report, 1900-1, pp. cvii. 62-72.
[809] Knight's Official Advertiser, 21st October 1871, p. 196.
[810] Thirteenth Annual Report, 1883-4, p. lii.
[811] Circular of 15th December 1892, in Twenty-second Annual Report, 1892-3, p. 43.
[812] MS. archives, Chorlton Board of Guardians, 1895, etc.; Local Government Chronicle, 11th January 1896, p. 33; 8th February 1896, p. 121.
[813] This was also permitted by letter to the Grantham Board of Guardians (Local Government Board to Grantham Union, November 1901; Local Government Chronicle, 7th December 1901, p. 1209); and doubtless to others. The Central Authority had, in fact, intimated its willingness "to consider applications" for a similar concession "from the guardians of large unions" (Local Government Board to Association of Poor Law Unions, 13th March 1901; Local Government Chronicle, 23rd March 1901, p. 295).
[814] Local Government Board to Association of Poor Law Unions, 13th March 1901; Local Government Chronicle, 23rd March 1901, p. 295. We cannot find that, down to the present day, any such permission has been given.
[815] On no account are the paupers, if allowed "milk," to be put off with "skim milk" or "scald milk"; by a decision of 1903, "milk" means always new milk (Decisions of the Local Government Board, 1902-3, by W. A. Casson, 1904, p. 11.)
[816] Memorandum on Emigration at the cost of the poor rate, in Local Government Chronicle, 26th October 1889, pp. 884-5.
[817] In 1883-4 there were 296 persons emigrated; in 1885-6, 133 persons; between 1887 and 1898 the number fell from 301 to 12; it began to revive in 1903, when it was 66; in 1905 it was 317 (see Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Twenty-sixth, Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth Annual Reports).