Catalogue description Folios 42-46. Workhouse Inspection Report Form from John Walsham, Poor Law Inspector, to...

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Details of MH 12/8480/27
Reference: MH 12/8480/27
Description:

Folios 42-46. 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 23 May 1854; includes details of medical provision, management of the school, the vagrant wards, numbers of inmates.
Enclosures to the report:
Report on the industrial farm for the year 1852-1853 signed by the Farm Committee consisting of F W Keppel [Frederick Walpole Keppel], John Hastings, Frederick North, Charles Cook, L A Norgate [Louis Augustine Norgate] and Thomas Brown and signed by C W Wright [Charles Wright] on 17 October 1853.
Return of medical orders for seven years to March 1853.
Copy of the notes made by John Walsham [Poor Law Inspector] on Mr Vincent's [James Vincent, Medical Officer] remarks on the overcrowding in some of the wards. 2 June 1854.
[See also paper number 24526/1850.]

Paper Number: 20089/1855.

Poor Law Union Number: 302.

Counties: Norfolk.

Date: 1854 May 23
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
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