Catalogue description Content: Folios 460-461. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Mr Hedley, [Robert...

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Details of MH 12/14590/338
Reference: MH 12/14590/338
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Content: Folios 460-461. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Mr Hedley, [Robert Hedley] Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Reeth Poor Law Union Workhouse on 9 June 1870; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. All children in the house had been vaccinated except for three infants, but the relieving officer believed that the medical officer, Mr Smith [William Smith], was in arrears, having been out of the district for two months without the permission of the guardians or providing a qualified substitute. Neither the guardians nor the master believed he should remain in the job. Annotated: extract the answer to 18, and refer to paid officers. 16 June 1870. Paper Number: 27897/1870. Poor Law Union Number 555. Counties: Yorkshire North Riding.
Date: 14 June 1870
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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