Catalogue description Folios 81-85. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John Walsham, Poor Law Inspector, to...

Folios 81-85. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John Walsham, Poor Law Inspector, to the Poor Law Board, reporting his inspection of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union workhouse on 20 May 1850; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates. Walsham makes an observation about a complaint made against the Relieving Officer Francis Reynolds for not having given a medical order or paid a visit to a sick child who subsequently died.
Minute book entry from Charles Wright, Clerk to the Guardians of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commissioners [Poor Law Board], dated 20 May 1850 concerning a complaint made to the board concerning Francis Reynolds, Relieving Officer. Reynolds had neglected to visit a child of George Lincoln and was severely admonished.
Minute book entry from guardians of the Mitford and Launditch Poor Law Union dated 31 December 1849 about a proposal from John Porter, guardian, seconded by the Reverend Louis Norgate [Louis Augustine Norgate] that an infant schoolmistress be appointed.
Letter from John Walsham [Poor Law Inspector] to [illegible] dated 23 May 1850 asking him to answer the enclosed papers. The letter also refers to Walsham's report on the Walsingham Poor Law Union.
Annotated: 'Mr Lane as to No 14.1'. 23 May 1850.
Annotated: comments from John Walsham [Poor Law Inspector] dated 3 May 1850 and 23 May 1850.

Paper Number: 28382/1850.

Poor Law Union Number: 302.

Counties: Norfolk.