Catalogue description Folios 220-221. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Reference: MH 12/9244/175
Description:

Folios 220-221. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector, reporting his inspection of the Basford Poor Law Union Workhouse on 24 July 1855; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Weale notes that additional accommodation for girls has not been provided. He considers the house not large enough for 400 inmates and cites instances of men sleeping more than one to a bed.

Paper Number: 30025/1855.

Poor Law Union Number: 334.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

Date: 1855 July 25
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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