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Catalogue description Folios 10-11. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from Robert Weale, Poor Law Inspector, to...
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| Reference: | MH 12/9367/6 |
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| Description: |
Folios 10-11. 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 4 February 1862; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards etc. There are the following comments: 1. There were Roman Catholic dissenters, and on application they are allowed to attend their respective place of worship, but there is no Roman Catholic church within 12 miles of Mansfield. 2. There were no vagrant wards at the workhouse. 3. There had not been a visit by a commissioner in lunacy since his last report. 4. There were 9 male and 7 female idiotic and weak minded, all were harmless and well taken care of. 5. Weale commented that the workhouse was in good order, there were 167 inmates compared with 165 for the corresponding week the previous year. Paper Number: 4366/1862. Poor Law Union Number: 337. Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. |
| Date: | 1862 Feb 4 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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