Despite this another scandal occurred over inhumane treatment of paupers in the Huddersfield workhouse. It was also used as corporal punishment for other offences, notably on female workhouse inmates. Ten percent of workhouse infirmaries provided separate insane wards. It is housed in a former workhouse next to St James's Hospital. Previously, it had been a workhouse and military barracks. Supporting an apprenticed child was also considerably cheaper than the workhouse or outdoor relief. Hammett returned to Tolpuddle and died in the Dorchester workhouse in 1891. Selly Oak Hospital began as a workhouse. In 1836 the architect George Wilkinson built a new, larger workhouse. This allowed judges to sentence "clergyable" offenders to a workhouse or a house of correction. Some guardians went so far as to refuse Catholic priests entry to the workhouse. Mason served six months in a Cincinnati workhouse. The workhouse (1824) was a prototype for many others. Nevertheless, local people became concerned about the competition to their businesses from cheap workhouse labour. Merrick became one of 1,180 residents in the workhouse.