Dorset Workhouses
 

Beaminster
Blandford
Bridport
Cerne
Dorchester
Poole
Shaftsbury
Sherborne
Sturminster
Wareham
Weymouth
Wimborne

Dorset Workhouses and Poor Law Unions

The Poor Law Unions classified as being within Dorset are Beaminster, Blandford Forum, Bridport, Cerne Abbas, Dorchester, Poole, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Sturminster Newton, Wareham and Purbeck, Weymouth, Wimborne and Cranborne.

Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy 
Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867
With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of 
insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates P255 J

"Echoes of the Century"
A century of the Daily Echo newspaper.

1904
A homeless Woman charged with lodging in the open air in Dean Park Road is discharged on promising to go to the workhouse.
1905
Mr J. E. Cooper Dean, of Littledown, is thrown from his coach while driving to the Christchurch Board of Guardians. His horses are frightened by passing cyclists at Iford Bridge. Mr Cooper Dean, not seriously injured walks back to Littledown.
1905
George Stevens of no fixed abode admits using obscene language in
Christchurch Road, Boscombe, and is fined 5s with 3d costs.
1907
The new Poole Hospital in the Long Fleet Road is opened by Lady Wimborne. She expresses the hope that Poole will "ever maintain the Hospital so worthy of the Town"
1908
The almshouse folk at Witchampton and Long Crichel receive a Christmas Gift from Lady Alington of Tea, Sugar and a piece of Gold, plus tobacco for the Men. The poor each get 5cwt of coal.
1912
Clare Adams of Winton, is charged at Bournemouth Police Court with being a Lunatic wandering at large and not under proper control. in Queens Road, Westbourne. She is sent to an Asylum in Salisbury.
1913
Female vagrants at Poole Workhouse are provided with mattresses instead of just wooden beds.
1914
The Mont Dore Hotel in Central Bournemouth is commandeered as part of the War effort and becomes a Hospital.
1914
King George V pays a visit to Brockenhurst Hospital where dozens of injured Indian Soldiers are being treated.

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