Catalogue description Folios 627-629. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector,...

Folios 627-629. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, on the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union made on 18 March 1871. He inserts a copy of an entry made by H G Bowyer [Henry Granville Bowyer, Inspector of Union Schools] on 16 March which comments that children have passed a fair examination and the discipline and tone of the school are creditable to the master.

The workhouse master has suggested that a new schoolroom should be built partly in the boy's yard and partly in the men's, as there appears to be no chance of the children being transferred to the Stoke upon Trent Industrial School, which would be far preferable. Bowyer suggests this worth the consideration of the Board.

Doyle doubts the suitability of the replacement porter and nurse, the first too young [21 years] and impatient, the other too old [50 years] and inexperienced.

The supply of hot water has been provided for throughout the establishment as necessary. The general management continues to be very good.

Annotated: regarding the matter of sending the children to Stoke school a very full discussion took place at a special meeting of the guardians, a committee of whom visited Stoke schools, but despite Doyle doing all he could to induce the guardians to adopt Bowyer's suggestion, it had no effect. Put by.

Paper Number: 12652/1871.

Poor Law Union Number: 415.

Counties: Staffordshire.