Catalogue description Content: Folios 65-66. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from W H Toovey Hawley,...

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Details of MH 12/9158/43
Reference: MH 12/9158/43
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Content: Folios 65-66. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from W H Toovey Hawley, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, reporting his inspection of the Tynemouth Poor Law Union Workhouse on 3 February 1847; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Due to the prevalence of a fever and other sick referrals, the medical officer had to use the receiving wards for some of the sick, but they will be restored to their proper use in a few days time. The master and guardians of the workhouse report favourably on the progress made by the children attending the parochial school. The vagrants have lately not been able to work as a consequence of dark mornings, but stone breaking will be resumed. A new treasurer has been appointed which was reported to the Poor Law Commission, but has not yet been confirmed. The new buildings containing a schoolroom, a sleeping ward for the girls and a receiving ward for females are now complete and will be in use in a few days. Annotated: enquire from Hawley whether in consequence of the new building that the number to be admitted be increased. Paper Number: 4168/1848. Poor Law Union Number 333. Counties: Northumberland.
Date: 3 Feb 1848
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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