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| Folios 83-86. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Alfred Austin, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, to the Poor Law Commission, reporting his inspection of the Keighley Poor Law Union Workhouse on 17 April 1847; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Four boys work at Mr Clough's factory and attend school there. There are no vagrant wards, and none are admitted. He observes that some male pauper inmates are employed out of the house, but their wages are received by the guardians, and he has written to the clerk about this. He also states that the wages of the boys employed at Mr Clough's factory are paid to the guardians. He also observed in a bedroom known as 'The Old Women's Room', that there was a young married couple, he was 29, the wife was 34, sleeping with one of their children in one bed, two other children were in a second bed, and a woman who appeared to be about 50 years old, but according to the admission book was 61, and a woman of 75 years old, were sleeping in a third bed. He directed the master not to allow this to occur another night. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Alfred Austin, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, to the Poor Law Commission, reporting his inspection of the Bingley Workhouse in the Keighley Poor Law Union on 17 April 1847; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Bingley has insufficient facilities and no receiving wards for the sick and infirm. There is no school at the workhouse, but five boys go to a school in Forresters Court in Bingley. A lad aged about 17 or 18 who has lost one of his hands is making considerable progress in figures. This workhouse also has no vagrant wards and no vagrants are admitted. He notes that three adult inmates, Thomas Sharpe, John Sharpe and Frederick Sharpe, work outside the workhouse, but their wages are paid to the guardians. Paper Number: 8658/B/1847. and 8659/B/1847. Poor Law Union Number 571. Counties: Yorkshire West Riding. |
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