Catalogue description Folios 202-203. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Details of MH 12/11201/124
Reference: MH 12/11201/124
Description:

Folios 202-203. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector, reporting on his inspection of the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union Workhouse on 2 June 1863; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc. The report of H G Bowyer [Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools] is quoted - the boys are fairly proficient, while the girls are improved in reading but moderate in other respects. The report of John Forster, Commissioner in Lunacy, on his visit on 30 January 1863, is quoted - the insane and weak-minded are in good order; the medical officer should consider moving Eljah Booth to an asylum.

Annotated: put by.

Paper Number: 21880/1863.

See also Paper Number: 20593/1863.

Poor Law Union Number: 415.

Counties: Staffordshire.

Date: 1863 June 3
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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