Catalogue description Local Government Board: Casual Wards, Visiting Officers' Diaries

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Reference: MH 18
Title: Local Government Board: Casual Wards, Visiting Officers' Diaries
Description:

This series contains weekly diaries of visiting officers of metropolitan casual wards. The diaries give inter alia the number of vagrants in the wards at the time of inspection, the number of habitual vagrants identified, and the number undergoing detention. Interspersed among the diaries are applications for leave, and a few letters relating to the death of individual visiting officers and applications for vacant posts.
Date: 1874-1881
Separated material:

The diaries for 1879 and 1880 are missing.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Local Government Board, 1871-1919
Physical description: 5 files and volumes
Administrative / biographical background:

Inspection of metropolitan casual wards was carried out by a superintendent and visiting officers drawn from retired police constables.

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