Catalogue description Content: Folios 289-290. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/11364/225
Reference: MH 12/11364/225
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Content: Folios 289-290. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Newcastle under Lyme Poor Law Union Workhouse on 5 May 1848; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. The report included a copy of the report of the Schools Inspector, H G Bowyer. This commented on the adequacy of teaching, the need for materials, the arrangement of classes and the children themselves. It also comments on visiting and discusses the criticism found in the Visitors' Book that the Medical Officer [Richard Lathbury Dudley] had neglected an inmate's husband and been drunk. The relevant extracts from the Consolidated Order relating to the punishment of disorderly and refractory paupers were not hung up. Otherwise the workhouse was in good order. Annotated: that the guardians should be asked if they had any plans to act on the recommendations relating to the school. It appeared that no further action could be taken regarding the allegations against the medical officer. Paper Number: 13967/1848. Poor Law Union Number 421. Counties: Staffordshire.
Date: 5 May 1848
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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