Catalogue description Folios 141-142. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John Graves, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Details of MH 12/13911/93
Reference: MH 12/13911/93
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Folios 141-142. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John Graves, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union Workhouse on 8 October 1856; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc.

Graves notes that relief of vagrants is left to relieving officers and that there are houses for the reception of vagrants in Bromsgrove and Redditch. He also notes that there is considerable prejudice against vaccination among the poor in the union.

Paper Number: 45747/1856.

Poor Law Union Number: 526.

Counties: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Date: 1856 Nov 22
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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