Posted with permission of the transcriber, 'Ann'. Geo. The West Cumberland Times, Saturday, Oct. 18, 1884 - SHORT NEWS ARTICLES 3. ______ TRAMPS. ______ It is said that ten years ago the number of vagrants passing through Workington was about 1,400 in a year. This number has now increased to the astonishing figure of over 8,000, and is of itself the strongest proof that the time has arrived for the question of vagrant wards to be dealt with in the same efficient way. As there is very little manufacturing industry at Cockermouth to attract these undesirable visitors, and as neither Maryport or Workington has any means at hand for getting some return for the relief expended, the “knowing ones” haunt these towns and shun Cockermouth as they would the plague, because there stands the Workhouse, and the Workhouse means the labour test. ~~~~~~~~~~