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Catalogue description Folios 276-277. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector,...
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| Reference: | MH 12/11200/201 |
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| Description: |
Folios 276-277. 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 1 July 1859; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc. Doyle notes that three or four pauper women were receiving 5s each for every pauper corpse they laid out. They refer to this payment as 'funeral money' and the practice originated when cholera was prevalent in the union. He recommends that the Board do not interfere with the practice. Annotated: after Doyle confirmed that the women in question were inmates of the workhouse, it was stated that the payments were illegal. Paper Number: 28781/1859. Poor Law Union Number: 415. Counties: Staffordshire. |
| Date: | 1859 July 2 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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