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Catalogue description Folio(s) 430-431. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John T Graves [John Thomas...
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| Reference: | MH 12/13908/289 |
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| Description: |
Folio(s) 430-431. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John T Graves [John Thomas Graves, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner], reporting his inspection of Bromsgrove Union Workhouse on 12 July 1848; includes detail of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc. He finds the workhouse scarcely adequate, the hospital good but the receiving wards not in a proper state. Regarding the school he finds the children very backward and recommends the deferral of sanctioning the appointment of the school mistress on trial [Elizabeth Cheese] and the appointment of an efficient schoolmaster. He notes that the boys are still under the supervision of a pauper White, quite unfit for that purpose. Tramps are accommodated in three cottages in Bromsgrove and also in Redditch superintended by the relieving officers. The classification is defective the men appearing to have access to the yard for children. He reports the nail trade to be flat and the needle and fish hook industry depressed. Paper Number: 20127/1848. Poor Law Union Number 526. Counties: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. |
| Date: | 1848 July 14 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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