Catalogue description Folios 275-276. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Reference: MH 12/9366/203
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Folios 275-276. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Mansfield Poor Law Union Workhouse on 24 June 1859; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, etc.

Weale also details the number of inmates who do not belong to the Church of England and reports favourably on the provision made for their religion. He states there are no vagrant wards in the workhouse; they are relieved by the relieving officer for vagrants or the police. The visiting committee does not visit regularly.

Paper Number: 27624/1859.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

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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