Catalogue description Folios 297-298. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Reference: MH 12/11202/213
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Folios 297-298. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, on the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union on 9 February 1869; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Regarding the school he quotes the report of H G Bowyer [Henry Granville Bowyer, H M Inspector of Workhouse Schools] dated 8 December 1868. The Medical Officer's book is kept by a deputy and not by himself and attendance is also given by the deputy. The Medical Officer [Charles Davenport] is aged [78 years] and infirm, incapable of any longer discharging his duties.

Annotated: ask the guardians whether they have considered Bowyer's suggestion of sending the children to the new schools in the Stoke Poor Law Union board.

Paper Number: 11933/1869.

Poor Law Union Number: 415.

Counties: Staffordshire.

Date: 1869 Feb 27
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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