Catalogue description Content: Folios 116-117. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from W H Toovey Hawley,...

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Reference: MH 12/9158/83
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Content: Folios 116-117. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from W H Toovey Hawley, Assistant Poor Law Inspector[Poor Law Inspector], to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Tynemouth Poor Law Union Workhouse on 28 August 1848; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Provision for the sick was sufficient. In the women's receiving ward as there was a women sick in bed that was placed there with no orders from the medical officer, she was removed to the sick ward. In the men's ward was a man with small pox, placed there by order of the medical officer. As there was a separate infirmary, it appeared wrong to place such cases in the receiving ward. There is a school for the girls in the workhouse but progress is not satisfactory, as in arithmetic the oldest girls being only in addition. Mr Browne did not examine the schoolmistress on his last visit, but will on his next. Boys attend the national school, progress is uncertain. Vagrants are employed in breaking stones, but the master was instructed to remove an able bodied inmate employed under the labour test. The clerk and master of the workhouse were ordered to procure extracts of the Poor Law Amendment Act and Regulations of the Commission and hang them up. Aged men are allowed to absent themselves from the workhouse on Saturday evenings. Improper articles have been brought into the workhouse either by them or by persons visiting. The porter has been directed to attend more strictly to his duties to search all suspected persons. In the women's day rooms, cups, saucers and tea kettles are in use and tea making is going on all day. Paper Number: 23805/1848. Poor Law Union Number 333. Counties: Northumberland.
Date: 28 Aug 1848
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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