Catalogue description Content: Folios 53-55. Workhouse inspection report from Robert Weale, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/11198/32
Reference: MH 12/11198/32
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Content: Folios 53-55. Workhouse inspection report from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Wolstanton and Burslem Union workhouse on 5 May 1848. The report includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards and number of inmates. He notes that the schoolmistress does not seem capable of training the children to habits of diligence and that the visiting committee does not regularly inspect the workhouse, only five times since 1 January 1848. Enclosed is a report by H G Bowyer, H M Inspector of Schools, of an inspection of the workhouse school on 27 April 1848. The boys' school is average, with good arithmetic teaching though the teacher needs to be better qualified. He recommends some textbooks for secular reading. The girls' school is inferior and the girls' industrial training extremely neglected and they are often returned to the workhouse on account of idleness. Unless the schoolmistress can improve the girls' reading he recommends that the school does not keep her. When mothers wish to see their children the interview should take place not in the women's ward but in a separate room. Annotated: to write to the guardians asking for a report of their consideration of the inspector's report. Paper Number: 14080/1848. Poor Law Union Number 415. 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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