This series contains correspondence of the Poor Law Commission and Board with assistant poor law commissioners and poor law inspectors, and of the Local Government Board with its general, engineering, medical, school, boarding-out and other inspectors. Also contains separate volumes of correspondence on special subjects with various inspectors and also circulars of the Board, reports of inspectors on the conditions and classification of work houses, a medical report on infant feeding, and a report by Edwin Chadwick on outdoor relief, 1840.