Catalogue description Content: Folios 495-496. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from N Edward Hurst [Norman...

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Details of MH 12/14589/354
Reference: MH 12/14589/354
Description:
Content: Folios 495-496. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from N Edward Hurst [Norman Edward Hurst], Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Reeth Poor Law Union Workhouse on 10 September 1860; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Ten children attend school and Mr Browne reports they can read but are deficient in other matters. Hurst mentions Dorothy Raine as being insane and recommends sending to an asylum; she was subsequently sent to the county asylum. Annotated: put by, 13 September 1860. Paper Number: 31962/1860. Poor Law Union Number 555. Counties: Yorkshire North Riding.
Date: 11 Sept 1860
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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