Catalogue description Folios 706-707. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Mr H N Farnall, Poor Law Inspector...

Folios 706-707. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Mr H N Farnall, Poor Law Inspector to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Mansfield Poor Law Union Workhouse on 12 September 1849; includes details of management of the school, new kitchen, vagrant lodgings and improved cleanliness of the Workhouse.

Farnell reports that the schoolmistress conducts both schools and there are only four boys capable of being taught field labour work for the future, the guardians are still giving vagrants lodgings and he intends to encourage them to use the vagrancy laws in future. He remarks that the workhouse is greatly improved since his last visit; it is clean with a new kitchen added in the south. He reports that he has had an interview with the guardians and the clerk regarding the [expertise] of the union and he is to meet them and go through the matter with them as for 3 years from [7 June 1941] the average out relief was £7,196 per annum, for the year ended 2 August 1947 it was £8754 and for year ended 2 August 1848 it was £12,582. 'The sum of £8,754 is 2s 2¾d on the income of the Union'. A significant decrease has occurred this year but it is in line with other unions in similar situations.

Paper Number: 26952/1849.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.