Catalogue description Content: Folios 486-487. Workhouse inspection report form from H B Farnall, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/11198/302
Reference: MH 12/11198/302
Description:
Content: Folios 486-487. Workhouse inspection report form from H B Farnall, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Wolstanton and Burslem Union Workhouse on 18 February 1851; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. The men's sick ward is damp. The newly-appointed schoolmaster and schoolmistress appear satisfactory. Farnall cautioned the newly-appointed porter, whose lodge was not in high order, and requested the removal to the infirmary of a sick woman who was being lodged in the receiving ward. Annotated: by Farnall, that he does not require any communication with the guardians with respect to the report. Paper Number: 9471/1851. Poor Law Union Number 415. Counties: Staffordshire.
Date: 19 Feb 1851
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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