Catalogue description Folios 96-98. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John Walsham, Poor Law Inspector, to...

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Details of MH 12/8480/67
Reference: MH 12/8480/67
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Folios 96-98. 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 November 1854: includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, number of inmates.
Walsham was still concerned about overcrowding in the women's wards. The school flooring was also a concern but the guardians were not of the same opinion.
Copy of the 'Industrial Farm Accounts' compiled by the Farm Committee consisting of F W Keppel, [Frederick Walpole Keppel] W R Freeman, Louis A Norgate [Louis Augustine Norgate], Frederick North, Charles Cook, Soames Green; includes comments by H G Bowyer [School Inspector].

Paper Number: 42568/1854.

Poor Law Union Number: 302.

Counties: Norfolk.

Date: 1854 Nov 20
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
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