Catalogue description Content: Folios 523-524. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/11198/322
Reference: MH 12/11198/322
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Content: Folios 523-524. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Wolstanton and Burslem Union Workhouse on 23 April 1851; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Doyle observes that in his opinion the accommodation for the aged is insufficient as both elderly men and women are sleeping in their respective day rooms which are close and overcrowded. He will inform the guardians of his observations. Annotated: to put by. Paper Number: 19439/1851. Poor Law Union Number 415. Counties: Staffordshire.
Date: 1 May 1851
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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