General Inspectors: J S Davy, correspondence and papers related to the Northern and York Districts and the South Eastern District (includes Sussex and parts of Surrey and Kent); and C A Dawson, correspondence and papers related to the Northern District - Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain - Adam Matthew Digital

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Title	General Inspectors: J S Davy, correspondence and papers related to the Northern and York Districts and the South Eastern District (includes Sussex and parts of Surrey and Kent); and C A Dawson, correspondence and papers related to the Northern District
Reference	MH 32/98
Date	1876-1901
Document Type	Correspondence; Report; Newspaper Clipping; Official Papers; Map
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 press reports of distress in certain northern and mining towns, including the Durham Miners' Strike of 1892.
Theme	The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Manufacturing, Technology and Trade; Social Order and Discipline
Keywords	Board of Guardians outdoor relief poor relief regulation able bodied trade and commerce population discontent manufacturing districts soup kitchens food allowances unemployment allowance scale elections government bills mental health asylum vagrancy employment diet medical relief children schools labour mining strikes infectious diseases charity poor rates working conditions living conditions wages stone breaking casual labour iron trade steel trade labour tests famine vagrant wards workhouse conditions nursing legislation shipbuilding Local Government Board [1871-1919]
Country	England
County	Sussex Kent Surrey Yorkshire (including East, North and West Riding) Cumberland Northumberland Durham
Places	Beverley Bridlington Driffield Howden Kingston upon Hull Patrington Pocklington Sculcoates Skirlaugh York Barnsley North Bierley Bradford Bramley Dewsbury Doncaster Goole Halifax Hemsworth Holbeck Huddersfield Hunslet Keighley Knaresborough Leeds Great Ouseburn Pateley Bridge Penistone Pontefract Ripon Saddleworth Sedbergh Selby Settle Skipton Tadcaster Thorne Wakefield Wetherby Wharfedale Wortley Manchester Ashford Blean Bridge Bromley, London Canterbury Cranbrook Dartford Dover Eastry Elham Faversham Gravesend Milton Hollingbourne Hoo Maidstone Malling Medway North Aylesford Romney Marsh Sevenoaks Sheppy Tenterden Isle of Thanet Tunbridge Godstone Battle Brighton Chailey Chichester Cuckfield Eastbourne East Grinstead East Preston Hailsham Hastings Horsham Lewes Midhurst Newhaven Petworth Rye Steyning Thakeham Ticehurst Uckfield Firle Westbourne Westhampnett Darlington Stockton Hartlepool Middlesbrough Durham Guisborough Auckland Chester-le-Street Easington Gateshead Houghton-le-Spring Lanchester Sedgefield South Shields Sunderland Teesdale Tynemouth Weardale Newcastle upon Tyne Carlisle Pickering Chester Hexham Belford Bedale Richmond, London Thirsk Whitby Longtown Northallerton Glendale Scarborough Malton Brampton Haltwhistle Rothbury Aysgarth Helmsley Kirkbymoorside
People	Davy, J S Provis, J B Owen, Hugh Wodehouse, Edmond H Sclater-Booth, George (1st Baron Basing) Lambert, John Downes, Arthur Knollys, William Edward Lefevre, John George Shaw
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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