Catalogue description Content: Folios 114-115. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law...

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Details of MH 12/490/70
Reference: MH 12/490/70
Description:
Content: Folios 114-115. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector to the Poor Law Board, reporting on his inspection of the Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union Workhouse; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. He comments that 'the workhouse is in very nice order and is well managed and has been so far for the last two or three years'. But he also observes that there have been only three inspections by the visiting committee recorded since his last half yearly report, and the last visit was made on 21 April 1847. Paper Number: 14482/A/1847.
Date: 10 Sept 1847
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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