Charles Lewis Dashwood, correspondence and papers relating to the North Midlands District (including unions in Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Rutland); Robert Hedley, correspondence and papers relating to the London Metropolitan District; J J Henley, correspondence and papers relating to the South Midlands District (including Birmingham and Oxford) - Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain - Adam Matthew Digital

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Title	Charles Lewis Dashwood, correspondence and papers relating to the North Midlands District (including unions in Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Rutland); Robert Hedley, correspondence and papers relating to the London Metropolitan District; J J Henley, correspondence and papers relating to the South Midlands District (including Birmingham and Oxford)
Reference	MH 32/46
Date	1877-1894
Document Type	Correspondence
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	Robert Hedley correspondence includes a report and papers on Catholic pauper children attending Metropolitan workhouses and districts schools.
Theme	The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Education and Children
Keywords	Local Government Board [1871-1919] job appointments trade and commerce wayfaring poor economic depression agriculture labour bricklaying wages vagrancy homeless vagrant wards medical relief healthcare outdoor relief indoor relief mining pensions education compulsory education government acts schools Catholic religion neglect mismanagement Irish discontent child labour able bodied Board of Guardians administration infirmary mental health asylum stone breaking unemployment ophthalmia disease death children workhouse conditions disability Charity Organisation Society Inspector of nuisances emigration clothing food manufacturing districts ribbon weavers burial funeral vaccination veteran casual wards boarding out teachers sick wards cottage homes diet oakum picking
Country	England
County	Lincolnshire Leicestershire Rutland Nottinghamshire London Oxfordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire Surrey Essex Middlesex Berkshire Buckinghamshire Lancashire Derbyshire Greater Manchester Merseyside
Places	Birmingham Oxford Lincoln Leicester Nottingham Ashby-de-la-Zouch Barrow upon Soar Billesdon Hinckley Loughborough Bosworth Market Harborough Boston Bourne Caistor Gainsborough Glanford Brigg Grantham Holbeach Horncastle Louth Sleaford Spalding Spilsby Stamford Basford Bingham Mansfield Newark Southwell Worksop Oakham Uppingham Bethnal Green, London Camberwell, London Chelsea, London Croydon, London Fulham, London Greenwich, London Hackney, London Hampstead, London Holborn, London Islington, London Kensington, London Lambeth, London Lewisham, London Marylebone, London Lewisham, London Paddington, London St Pancras, London Poplar, London Richmond, London Shoreditch, London Stepney, London Strand, London Wandsworth, London Westminster, London Whitechapel, London Woolwich, London Brentford, London Croydon, London Lewisham, London Forest Gate, London Mitcham Thame Atcham Headington Wigton St Neots Bedminster Huntingdon Bristol Medway Sevenoaks Leeds Abingdon Bradfield Cookham East Hampstead Farringdon Hungerford Newbury Reading Wallingford Wantage Windsor Wokingham Amersham Aylesbury Buckingham Eton Newport Pagnell Winslow High Wycombe Bicester Chipping Norton Henley Witney Woodstock Dorking Epsom Guildford Hambleton Kingston upon Thames Reigate Alcester Aston Atherstone Coventry Foleshill Nuneaton Solihull Rugby Southam Stratford-upon-Avon Worcester Warwick Kings Norton Reading Banbury Chertsey Kingston upon Thames Staines-upon-Thames Uxbridge, London Preston Barrow-in-Furness Manchester Liverpool Salford Derby Oldham Wigan Toxteth
People	Hedley, Robert Henley, J J Dashwood, Charles Lewis Owen, Hugh Lambert, John
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

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