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Folios 549-553. Letter from William Ashton, Clerk to the Guardiansof the Basford Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, accompanying medical officer forms as per their letter, reference 9774/B/1841. Appointment of medical officer form with details, including: Name: Thomas Lightfoot of Weekday Cross, Nottingham, Doctor of Medicine. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, [Midlothian, Scotland]. Licentiate of the Apothecaries Company. Form asks if he has been contracted on the vaccination of the poor persons scheme. District appointed to: Wilford. Parishes covered will be: Barton, [Bringford], Bradmore, Bunny, Clifton, Gamson, [Gamston], Gotham, Ruddington, Thrumpton and Wilford. His age, salary, length of practise given. Acreage, population of area and cause of vacancy given. Second appointment of medical officer form with details, including: Name: Robert Mason of Calverton. Licentiate of the Apothecaries Company. Form asks if he has been contracted on the vaccination of the poor persons scheme. District appointed to: Calverton. Parishes covered will be: Calverton, Lambley and Woodborough. His age, salary, length of practise given. Acreage, population of area and cause of vacancy given. Annotated: Mr Senior, [Edward Senior, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner], for his opinion as Mr Lightfoot, new Medical Officer, doesn't live in the district. Paper Number: 10189/B/1841. Poor Law Union Number 334. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. |
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