Catalogue description Folios 433-434. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Reference: MH 12/9246/289
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Folios 433-434. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Basford Poor Law Union Workhouse, on 25 June 1859; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc.

He refers to the number of inmates not in communion with the Church of England and what provision is made for them.

There are 29 lunatic and idiotic patients. Joseph Simpson, one of these, is 17 years old and would be better in an asylum.

There are 197 inmates; this time in the previous year there were 234.

Paper Number: 27612/1859.

Poor Law Union Number: 334.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

Date: 1859 June 28
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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