In the series of sick wards Whit occupied, he often struggled at night for reasons to live, awake, through one more day.

Male sick wards were at the south."

Along the north side of the workhouse were casual wards and female sick wards.

Those who were fortunate enough to be in the sick wards were given sago, or rice pudding instead.

The master was instructed to draw up an inventory of the whole stock in the sick wards; some weeks passed but he still failed to do so.

They were not to be employed in the sick wards, and under no circumstances was an inmate to be allowed to nurse a sick fellow.

To note defects in the arrangements for the infirmary or the sick wards and the performance of the duties by the nurses of the sick.

'.there are some persons maintained in the sick wards at the Bedford Institution who may be classified as infirm and not requiring constant hospital treatment.

The superintendent-nurse was in charge of the sick wards, and interference from matron or her husband in nursing matters was greatly resented.

It came from the sick wards, and I told him that I purposed neither to touch it, nor to allow it to touch me.

Not only was there physical weakness but also intense loneliness and sometimes mental anguish due to lack of occupation in the 'workhouse' and the chronic sick wards.

Some of the aged men and women in the sick wards had difficulty in digesting the suet pudding which was the prescribed house diet for dinner on Friday.

At that time it was officially known as the 'Poor Law Institution', although the sick wards there had been distinguished as St. Peter's Hospital for some years.

Gul Evek was silent as they toured the sick wards where Dr. Bist and Nurse T'Ral were treating the Cardassians.

The voluntary hospital, the Infirmary, was specifically designed to care for the sick, and its relative freedom from the constraints associated with spending public money gave it the advantage over the sick wards at the workhouse.

With Dr. Goldsmith, she attended the meeting of the House Committee, and Mr. Kenealy, a member of the Board, referred to serious complaints about the administration of the sick wards.

None of us will forget the sight of the dead from the sick wards being piled onto old carts each morning and drawn out of the camp by emaciated prisoners of war, then to be hurriedly interred.

The sick wards were now referred to as the workhouse infirmary, a new block was built in 1916, and by the twenties, it was this section of the Bedford Union which became St. Peter's Hospital.

Ensconced in the opulent, Gothic-vaulted sick wards of a one-time hospital (1180-1865), the Jean Lurçat Museum of Contemporary Tapestry showcases monumental 20th-century tapestries by Jean Lurçat, Thomas Gleb and others.

As early as 1914, arrangements for building new sick wards, that is, a workhouse infirmary, had been progressing, and in October, some sheds which had been used for wood chopping and storage were demolished to make way for the building of the new sick pavilions.

But with a chorus of nose-blowing and inadvertently synchronized eye-wiping that has reached from subway cars that seem like moving sick wards to Broadway stages replete with hoarse thespians, a lot of New Yorkers, famous and not, have had to admit they suffer from seasonal allergies.