Catalogue description Content: Folios 277-278. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Sir John Walsham Bart,...

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Reference: MH 12/8478/181
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Content: Folios 277-278. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Sir John Walsham Bart, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union Workhouse on 26 June 1848; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Walsham states that on the day of his visit an investigation took place respecting the alleged [intrigues] of the nurse to the poor men in the sick wards. The guardians resolved by a large majority that the charge could not be proved and as the nurse was a very efficient one she should continue. Walsham feels that on the evidence given the guardians could not come to any other conclusion but he himself has an impression that the accusation was well founded. Paper Number: 18592/1848. Poor Law Union Number 302. Counties: Norfolk.
Date: 26 June 1848
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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