| Title |
Edmond H Wodehouse, correspondence and papers relating to the South Western District (including Devonshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire), and the Metropolis District (including Bethnal Green, Chelsea and Stepney)
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| Collection |
MH 32 Local Government Board and Predecessors: Assistant Poor Law Commissioners and Inspectors, Correspondence, 1834-1904
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| 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.
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| Document Description |
Includes papers related to a report on the general condition of schools, and a copy of the revised code of regulations related to the Committee of the Privy Council on Education 1864.
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| Theme |
The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Education and Children
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| Library/Archive |
The National Archives, UK
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| Copyright and Source Archive |
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