Catalogue description Content: Folios 651-657. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John Walsham, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/4539/408
Reference: MH 12/4539/408
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Content: Folios 651-657. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John Walsham, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board reporting his inspections of the Bishops Stortford Poor Law Union Workhouse on 30 November 1849 and 5 December 1849; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. He notes that there are no less than 70 able-bodied young men in the workhouse and he understands many more will shortly become unemployed. In some parishes wages have fallen to 7/- week and generally range 8/- a week, however the excess of able bodied men compared with last year is not very large. Attached is a report by William Barlow, Workhouse Master, providing a report of the comparative number of different classes of paupers in the workhouse comparing 1848 and 1849. Attached is a report by the Reverend Godfrey Goodman Workhouse Chaplain as to the standards of the schools and recommended improvements which would be beneficial to the children. He makes reference to the reading standard of a tall girl called Eliza Jones aged 14. He suggests the school master and mistress be given further training and encouragement to improve their skills; also infers that a problem exists between them and the governor. Paper Number: 35472/1849. Poor Law Union Number 167. Counties: Hertfordshire and Essex.
Date: 5 Dec 1849
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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