Catalogue description Content: Folios 206-207. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/9362/171
Reference: MH 12/9362/171
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Content: Folios 206-207. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Mansfield Poor Law Union Workhouse on 2 February 1855; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Indicating the insufficient visits from visiting commissioners to the workhouse despite having previously received communication on this matter. Requesting to caution the guardians that if they do not regularly inspect the workhouse then the Board will consider it necessary to 'appoint a paid Inspector.' Annotated: letter to the guardians drawing their attention to 10& 11 Vict c 109 s 24, under which it will be the duty of the Board to appoint a paid visitor to the workhouse, unless the visiting committee regularly visit. Paper Number: 4113/1855. Poor Law Union Number 337. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Date: 1 January 1855 - 31 December 1855
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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