Catalogue description Content: Folios 226-227. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Assistant...

Ordering and viewing options

  • Free

  • Download format PDF
  • Approximate size 1.5 MB

Order up to 10 items per basket, and up to 100 in a 30 day period.

Details of MH 12/11364/177
Reference: MH 12/11364/177
Description:
Content: Folios 226-227. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, reporting his inspection of the Newcastle under Lyme Poor Law Union Workhouse on 26 July 1847; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. He commented that, while adequate in normal times, the provision for the sick and infectious was inadequate owing to the great influx of Irish, 'many of whom have been suffering from Fever and who have introduced Fever into the neighbourhood'. The subject of temporary fever wards was under consideration by the guardians. Weale found nine cases in the workhouse and the medical officer had caught it from his patients. No able-bodied vagrants were now being admitted because their rooms were now being used for fever cases. The record of the Visiting Committee was very poor - too few visits were made, especially now, with the prevalence of fever. The Relieving Officer [George Harris Tilsley] lived nearly a mile from the centre of town, though he had now sold this and was to move from it. As the number of vagrants passing through was very great, and the magistrates were having great difficulty in dealing with their applications, Weale stated clearly to the relieving officer, in the presence of the mayor and borough magistrates, that he should reside in the town and explained his duties to him. Paper Number: 16873/B/1847. Poor Law Union Number 421. Counties: Staffordshire.
Date: 27 July 1847
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research