Catalogue description Folios 365-367. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector,...

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Reference: MH 12/11201/250
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Folios 365-367. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Andrew Doyle, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union workhouse on 8 November 1864; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc.

Enclosed copy of a report from H G Bowyer, H M Inspector of Union Schools dated 12 October 1864.

Bowyer informs the Board that the guardians do not intend to appoint a new workhouse schoolmistress but to place all the children under the instruction of the schoolmaster. He gives details of the teaching timetable which will ensure that the elder boys and girls are never in school at the same time and he recommends the plan.

Annotated: 'Put by'.

Paper Number: 41414/1864.

Poor Law Union Number: 415.

Counties: Staffordshire.

Date: 1864 Nov 8
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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