Catalogue description Content: Folios 48-49. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from W H T Hawley, Assistant...

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Details of MH 12/9158/30
Reference: MH 12/9158/30
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Content: Folios 48-49. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from W H T Hawley, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, reporting his inspection of the Tynemouth Poor Law Union Workhouse on 9 August 1847; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Provision for the sick was insufficient, but alterations are planned, but need to be reported to the commission. The children are making good progress in the parochial school. Vagrant wards are sufficient, but the women's ward was occupied by 3 male vagrants ill with typhoid. The male vagrants are employed in picking oakum as the guardians are not able to procure a supply of stones for stone breaking. The visiting committee omit to make replies to queries in the visitors' book. The aged men and women are allowed to absent themselves from the workhouse on Saturdays, and one of the able women is employed in cleaning the men's ward in the presence of men. Annotated: defer for a few days or until the intended alterations and additions to the workhouse have been reported. Paper Number: 13247/A/1847. Poor Law Union Number 333. Counties: Northumberland.
Date: 9 Aug 1847
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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