Catalogue description Folios 613-615. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector,...

Folios 613-615. 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 13 March 1861; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc. Also mentioned in the report:

Reading tablets and easy lesson books.

Bakers Circle of Knowledge tablet lessons, Gradation 1 and reading books Gradation 2, published by Groombridge and Sons.

[Colenford] Progressive Examples in Arithmetic Part 1, price 4d, [N G Bowyer] 21 December 1860.

Protestant Dissenters and Roman Catholics.

The police officer is the relieving officer for vagrants.

Thomas Thompson.

Robert Naime and R W S Lutwidge.

Report from Weale regarding a meeting about disputed vaccination amounts between the Guardians of Mansfield Poor Law Union and Dr Powell, [William Edward Powell, Medical Officer] stating the following:

That he found no dispute about existing accounts, nor had Powell made any claim that the guardians did not feel justified in paying - [see 7398/1861].

Vaccination fees, amount given, were paid to Powell on 27 March 1860 for period up to Lady Day 1860.

In August 1860 the guardians started to query the amounts paid and correspondence was commenced with the Poor Law Board, until November 1860, [41117/1860], and with the Privy Council offices - [30514/1860].

On 13 December 1860, Powell is re-elected as medical officer for number 4 district.

The guardians wished Weale to reopen the account paid to Powell on 27 March 1860 and investigate the cases charged for, but Weale felt that he couldn't being foreign to the complaint referred to in the clerk's [W E Goodacre, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mansfield Poor Law Union] letter of 26 February 1861, [7398/1861].

Powell resigns.

Annotated: put by.

Further annotated: reserve. Doctor Powell's resignation has been reported - [see 10026/1861].

Paper Numbers: 8688/1861. 9036/1861.

See also Paper Number: 10026/1861.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.