Catalogue description Folios 54-56. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector, to...

Folios 54-56. 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 8 August 1867; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc. Doyle notes that the vagrants are employed 'in the garden and at the pump' but that the work does not seem to be systematically arranged.

Enclosed is a copy of Doyle's letter to W John Bennett, Master of the Workhouse in which he recommends the removal of Catherine Capeltone, a young girl, from the workhouse school as she is subject to fits and needs 'more attention than she can receive there'. Doyle states that some 'systematic work' should be provided for the vagrants and suggests that the old vagrant ward should be converted to an oakum room. Female vagrants could also be employed in this work in addition to cleaning the wards and offices. He also comments on the state of the infants' yard and the lack of water in some of the closets as well as the general cleanliness in that area.

Annotated: 'Reserve'.

Paper Number 32226/1867.

Poor Law Union Number: 415.

Counties: Staffordshire.