Catalogue description Content: Folios 50-51. Letter from Thomas Day, Clerk to the Guardians of Bromsgrove...

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Details of MH 12/13905/26
Reference: MH 12/13905/26
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Content: Folios 50-51. Letter from Thomas Day, Clerk to the Guardians of Bromsgrove Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission. The Commission's circular letter of 6 March 1841 on the remuneration of medical officers was laid before the guardians at their meeting of 8 March. A committee was appointed to take the letter into consideration and report on what alteration if any should be made on the present mode of remunerating medical officers. Their report was adopted by the guardians at their meeting on 15 March. They found that there was little cause for dissatisfaction to the existing arrangements and recommended no alteration to a payment-per-case system. However some limit within prudent bounds should be given to the medical officers' discretion in ordering wine and meat for persons not on the pauper list. Where any doubt existed, medical relief could be granted by way of a loan. Annotated: by A Power [Alfred Power, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner], that he does not see how medical relief can be given as a loan unless it is under a per-case system. He recommends issuing a similar circular in the future, by which time opinion will advance in favour of the per-case system. Annotated: to put with the other answers to the circular. Paper Number: 3052/B/1841. Poor Law Union Number 526. Counties: Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire.
Date: 16 Mar 1841
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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