Catalogue description Content: Folios 388-390. Letter from Charles Bond, Clerk to the Guardians of the...

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Details of MH 12/2097/230
Reference: MH 12/2097/230
Description:
Content: Folios 388-390. Letter from Charles Bond, Clerk to the Guardians of the Axminster Poor Law Union to the Poor Law Commissioners, on the subject of 'Amended Dietary'. Enclosed is a draft amended dietary order which is to supersede the existing dietary order issued on the 6 April 1838, includes a schedule giving detailed instructions of how the inmates of the workhouse or workhouses in the Axminster Poor Law Union should be fed, dieted and maintained with food. The schedule is in the form of a table listing the type of food allowed and the differing quantities specified for men and for women and for breakfast, dinner and supper on each day of a week from Sunday through to Saturday. The diet comprises of bread and gruel for breakfast on each day. For dinner cooked meat and potatoes are allowed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, just soup on Tuesday and Saturday and only suet pudding on Sunday. For supper bread is to be provided on each day of the week accompanied by gruel only on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; cheese on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; whilst broth is restricted to Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Paper Number: 13259/A/1844 and 13269/A/1844. See also Paper Number: 11731/A/1844. Poor Law Union Number 76. Counties: Devon and Dorset.
Date: 7 Sept 1844
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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