Catalogue description Content: Folios 107-108. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Sir John Walsham,...

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Reference: MH 12/8478/65
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Content: Folios 107-108. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Sir John Walsham, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, to the Poor Law Commission, reporting his inspection of the Mitford and Launditch Workhouse on 14 June 1847. Included are details of medical provision, management of the school and the vagrant wards, and numbers of inmates. Walsham notes that Peter Raven, Medical Officer, makes larger orders for meat, porter and milk, etc than he has ever seen for conditions such as palsy, lumbago, consumption, infirmity, debility rheumatism and dropsy. Walsham maintains that in unions under his superintendence no medical officer ordered this amount except for typhus fever, mortification etc. The guardians appear to remonstrate with Mr Raven 'continuously but vainly'. Walsham notes that if Raven is right then all the other medical officers are wrong as to amount of meat to be given to sick cases. Paper Number: 13068/B/1847. Poor Law Union Number 302. Counties: Norfolk.
Date: 14 June 1847
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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