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Content: Folios 476-506. Report/set on notes and copies of letters to Charles Buller junior MP, President of the Poor Law Board. 1. From the Axminster Poor Law Union books the number of vagrants for the period Christmas 1840 to Christmas 1847 is given: 1841: 210. 1842: 326. 1843: 431. 1844: 448. 1845: 469. 1846: 437. 1847: 907. Average costs are given. 2. Information from Charles Hayman, Medical Officer, on smallpox. In both 1845 and 1847 it was brought to the workhouse by tramps from Lyme Regis. Tramps are constantly brining typhus fever into the workhouse 'we are seldom free from it'. In both cases of smallpox those infected were lodged separately from other inmates. 3. Since Mr Gomm became Workhouse Master a correct account of vagrants admitted and discharged have been kept. Numbers for an 11 week period is given 'the vast number of these have been Irish families...'. also provide details of their allowances. 4. An account from the porter is given who states that the vagrants, when appearing at the workhouse and dirty and their clothes 'swarm with vermin'. The vagrants are chiefly Irish. The offences committed by vagrants include breaking windows - which have occurred several times. They are punished by being taken before the magistrates but more commonly by being deprivwed of breakfast. Since Gomm became master three vagrants have attempted to destroy their clothes to get new ones from the union. They were sent away with no new clothes and in their torn clothes. 5. Accounts of the following vagrants are included: A John Moss. B George Strawbridge. C Stephen Backollen. D William Godard. 5. An account of vagrant lodging houses in Axminster. 6. The case of George Atkins Baines with list of his committals. 7. George Atkins Baines: letter to George Vincent, Kings Arms Inn, Thornford, Sherborne. 8. Letter from William Tucker, Chairman of the Axminster Poor Law Union. 9. Letter to Charles Buller junior MP, President of the Poor Law Board. 10. Statistics of Irish, English/Welsh and Scottish [vagrants] taken from the Axminster books. 11. Accounts of: A Daniel O'Sullivan and Michael MacCartney, B Catherine White and Mary Bass, C Daniel Murphy, his wife and 6 children. Paper Number: 27982/1848. Poor Law Union Number 76. Counties: Devon and Dorset.
Date: 1848
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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