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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | [Medical Inspectors: Arthur Downes, correspondence and papers relating to the districts under Downes' superintendence: Part 3] |
| Reference | MH 32/106 Part 3 |
| Date | 1858-1899 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Report |
| Collection | MH 32 Local Government Board and Predecessors: Assistant Poor Law Commissioners and Inspectors, Correspondence, 1834-1904 |
| Series Description | This series contains correspondence of the Poor Law Commission and Board with assistant poor law commissioners and poor law inspectors, and of the Local Government Board with its general, engineering, medical, school, boarding-out and other inspectors. The series also contains separate volumes of correspondence on special subjects with various inspectors, and also circulars of the Board, reports of inspectors on the conditions and classification of workhouses, a medical report on infant feeding and a report by Edwin Chadwick on outdoor relief, 1840. |
| Document Description | Includes 'Tabular Statement of Workhouse Dietaries, Lancashire, 1890', correspondence and papers related to nursing in sick wards in London Metropolitan Division and Metropolitan Poor Law Schools. Also includes list of medical inspectors, correspondence, reports and papers related to the London Metropolitan Division and Metropolitan Poor Law Schools and correspondence of various school inspectors. Please note: some letters may be missing due to absence in original document. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Health, Medicine and Disability |
| Keywords | mental health mismanagement neglect healthcare ventilation disease ophthalmia ophthalmic school infectious diseases clothing vaccination children inquest infant sanitation slum orphan sick wards overcrowding medical reform Local Government Board [1871-1919] |
| Country | England |
| County | London |
| Places | Camberwell, London Bethnal Green, London Chelsea, London Fulham, London Greenwich, London Hackney, London Hampstead, London Holborn, London Islington, London Kensington, London Lambeth, London Marylebone, London Lewisham, London Paddington, London St Pancras, London Poplar, London Shoreditch, London Stepney, London Strand, London Wandsworth, London Clapham, London Westminster, London Whitechapel, London Woolwich, London Sutton |
| People | Owen, Hugh Downes, Arthur |
| Library/Archive | The National Archives, UK |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Images including crown copyright images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |