Catalogue description Content: Folios 328-329. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weal, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/9362/268
Reference: MH 12/9362/268
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Content: Folios 328-329. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weal, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Mansfield Poor Law Union Workhouse on 2 July 1855; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Further mentioning the following matters: 1. Stating that due to depression of trade Labour Test Order cannot be put into operation. 2. Indicating the insufficient number of visits of the workhouse from the visiting committee. A matter the board must deal with. 3. Temporary provision of generous accommodation for the overcrowded stated of children's and women's wards achieved. Annotated: write and request the guardians in consultation with the medical officer re consider the question of amount of accommodation allowing and should state the number of cubic feet. State that it is with much regret that the board find that visiting committee still fail to perform their duty of inspecting the workhouse. Annex the correspondence to this subject and that to the accommodation of the workhouse. Paper Number: 27466/1855. Poor Law Union Number 337. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Date: 2 July 1855
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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