Catalogue description Content: Folios 76-77. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Aneurin Owen, Assistant...

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Details of MH 12/16248/61
Reference: MH 12/16248/61
Description:
Content: Folios 76-77. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Aneurin Owen, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, to the Poor Law Commission, reporting his inspection of the Cardiff Poor Law Union Workhouse on 5 June 1847; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Although the report indicates that provision for the sick and infectious has been stretched to the limit by the great influx of Irish, it is a positive one in that despite 100 being infected with fever they were 'well accommodated'. Paper Number: 14084/B/1847. Poor Law Union Number 613. Counties: Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire.
Date: 3 July 1847
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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