Catalogue description Folios 47-48. Workhouse Inspection Report from C L Dashwood, Local Government Inspector,...

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Details of MH 12/9539/23
Reference: MH 12/9539/23
Description:

Folios 47-48. Workhouse Inspection Report from C L Dashwood, Local Government Inspector, reporting his inspection of the Southwell Poor Law Union Workhouse on 6 March 1880. The report includes information on the following subjects:

details of relief granted as in-maintenance and as out-relief in the year ended Lady Day 1879

the number of occupants n the night before the inspection, classified by age and gender.

details of medical provision.

management of the school.

the vagrant wards.

number of insane inmates.

The report concludes that the workhouse is clean and in good order, though classification is imperfect.

Annotated to send usual letter calling attention to the want of means of communication between [female] receiving wards and some offices of the workhouse.

Date: 1880 Mar 6
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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