Catalogue description Content: Folios 571-574. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Sir John Walsham, Poor...

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Details of MH 12/8478/349
Reference: MH 12/8478/349
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Content: Folios 571-574. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Sir John Walsham, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union Workhouse on 20 and 23 November 1849; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Details have been added concerning the ditch about which the Board have corresponded with Revered Benjamin Barker, Shipdham. It is also noted that ventilation in almost every ward of the workhouse is defective. Attached is a letter from Stephen Wade [Master Gressenhall Workhouse] to Sir John Walsham [Assistant Poor Law Commissioner] enclosing an extract from a report from H G Bowyer, Inspector of Schools. Bowyer is satisfied with the boys, whose schoolmaster has obtained a certificate of competency and two monitors have passed the examination for candidates. The present schoolmistress will eventually make an efficient teacher, but suggests steps be made for the formation of an infant school, as it is impossible for one schoolmistress to properly teach 80 girls. Also enclosed a copy of an entry in the minutes for the guardians meeting of 26 November with regard to Bowyer's report. It was resolved that William Seaman of North Tuddenham and William Parker of Hockering be retained as pupil teachers on passing examination and be employed as monitors. Paper Number: 34128/1849. Poor Law Union Number 302. Counties: Norfolk.
Date: 23 Nov 1849
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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