Catalogue description Folios 138-139. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Details of MH 12/11367/113
Reference: MH 12/11367/113
Description:

Folios 138-139. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Newcastle under Lyme Poor Law Union Workhouse on 29 July 1863; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc.

He includes an entry made by John Forster, Commissioner in Lunacy, dated 30 January 1863, that two inmates, a man and a woman, are now classed as of unsound mind, and that medical care is also required for the two Ashleys, mother and daughter.

Annotated: see 6407 [6407/1863], disposed of.

Paper Number: 29645/1863.

Poor Law Union Number: 421.

Counties: Staffordshire.

Date: 1863 July 30
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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