Catalogue description Folios 40-41. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale Assistant Poor Law...

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Reference: MH 12/9237/26
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Folios 40-41. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, to the Poor Law Commission, reporting his inspection of the Basford Poor Law Union Workhouse on 7 January 1847; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc. There have been no new appointments made except a schoolmaster who has got provisional sanction. The accounts are being properly kept but their clothing accounts are to be examined more closely in the future. The workhouse is in very good condition with a slight increase in the number of inmates due to the depression in trade.

Annotated: ask about question 10 [the provisional sanction of the schoolmaster].

Paper Number: 3192/B/1847.

Poor Law Union Number 334.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

Date: 1847 Feb 2
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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