Catalogue description Content: Folios 235-236. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from W H T Hawley, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/14588/169
Reference: MH 12/14588/169
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Content: Folios 235-236. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from W H T Hawley, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Reeth Poor Law Union Workhouse on 8 November 1849; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. The receiving and sick wards had been treated for dampness and were now dry. There were only two girls receiving schooling from the Master of the Workhouse and they were very ignorant. No work was performed as most inmates were not able-bodied, were sick, or were women or children. An inmate, John Longstaff, had been appointed as porter of the workhouse; this had not been reported. A male inmate who frequently wandered out of the House was being restrained by manacles to his wrist; he was quite inoffensive and quiet. Mr Hawley ordered that the manacles be removed. Annotated: enquire whether there is a school nearby which the girls might attend. Recommend that the lunatic mentioned should be sent to a lunatic asylum if it is necessary to restrain him from wandering. 12 November 1849. 32330/1849. Poor Law Union Number 555. Counties: Yorkshire North Riding.
Date: 8 November 1849
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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