Catalogue description Folios 226-227. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Mr Robert Weale, Poor Law...

Folios 226-227. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Mr Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Basford Poor Law Union Workhouse on 1 July 1862; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. He reported that he considered the workhouse to be inadequate for the wants of the union. The accommodation for the sick was defective and limited and the receiving wards were too small. He had brought this to the attention of the guardians.

Annotated: write to the guardians to the effect suggested by Mr Lambert.

Paper Number: 25255/1862.

Poor Law Union Number: 334.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.