Catalogue description Folio(s) 50-51. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector,...

Folio(s) 50-51. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union Workhouse on 27 July 1852; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates.Regarding the schools they appear to be much improved, the girls' school especially so. There are in the [workhouse] five grown girls, three of them infected with venereal disease, who have been brought up in the workhouse. Within the last few years the guardians seem to have become more alive to the necessity of providing the means of industrial education for the children.

A considerable amount of bed clothing was lent out by the guardians for the accommodation of the soldiery who were quartered in the neighborhood during the recent election.

In this [workhouse] the old people, men and women, [stay] in their day-room. On a prior occasion the inspector [objected] to this, but the master says it would be very inconvenient to stay upstairs. It is [not] worthwhile to interfere with the practice, but it is a deviation from prescribed classification.

The guardians are carrying out improvements to the kitchen arrangement.

Annotated: put by.

Paper Number: 29981/1852.

Poor Law Union Number 415.

Counties: Staffordshire.