Catalogue description Content: Folios 205-207. Draft letter from the Poor Law Board to R M Hodge [Richard...

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Details of MH 12/1530/124
Reference: MH 12/1530/124
Description:
Content: Folios 205-207. Draft letter from the Poor Law Board to R M Hodge [Richard Michell Hodge], Clerk to the Guardians of the Truro Poor Law Union, relating to the over-crowding in the union workhouses and the guardians' postponement of consideration of building a central workhouse. The board has also considered a report by Mr Gulson, [Edward Gulson, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner], on conditions in the Truro workhouses, which are incompatible with the health of inmates, the education of children and common decency. The board therefore requires the guardians at once to reduce the number of inmates within the fixed limits by giving outdoor relief where appropriate. If the guardians persist in their refusal to erect a central workhouse, the board will define by an order the classes of paupers to be taken into each workhouse and will direct the appointment of a properly qualified schoolmaster and schoolmistress, and will regulate the salaries of officers to obtain competent persons. Paper Number: 2446/1848, 2453/1848 and 2458/1848. Poor Law Union Number 57. Counties: Cornwall.
Date: 1 Feb 1848
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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