Catalogue description Folios 563-564. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Details of MH 12/11367/429
Reference: MH 12/11367/429
Description:

Folios 563-564. 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 2 March 1867; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc.

The children have passed generally a satisfactory examination and the first class have made great progress in arithmetic. Several of them however are backwards in reading, though the reading is generally fair. He would recommend a good deal of practice in composition on paper.

Paper Number: 8307/1867.

Poor Law Union Number: 421.

Counties: Staffordshire.

Date: 1867 Mar 8
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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