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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | General Inspectors: Philip H Bagenal, correspondence and papers relating to the Eastern District (includes Essex); Thomas Bircham and correspondence and papers relating to the Welsh District |
| Reference | MH 32/96 |
| Date | 1876-1898 |
| 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 papers relating to poor relief in South Wales, and an advert for the general rules for Aberystwyth Union in English and Welsh. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Sanitation, Slums and Housing; Education and Children |
| Keywords | administration Local Government Board [1871-1919] inspection classification charity rural poverty agriculture Irish migrant labour housing sanitary districts sanitation slum tenement houses infectious diseases cottage homes workhouse conditions infirmary living conditions medical relief healthcare nursing typhoid fever NSPCC Union organisation Public Health Act education schools children Inspector of nuisances economic depression casual labour copper smelting iron trade mining discontent unemployment disease oakum picking industrial training domestic training mining chemical works vagrancy sick wards |
| Language | English; Welsh |
| Country | England Wales |
| County | Essex Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgeshire (including Isle of Ely) Carmarthenshire Cardiganshire Monmouthshire Devon Glamorganshire Brecknockshire Pembrokeshire Gloucestershire Anglesey Denbighshire Flintshire Caernarfonshire Merionethshire Montgomeryshire Radnorshire Powys |
| Places | King's Lynn Yarmouth Norwich Bury St Edmunds Ipswich Chelmsford Colchester Thetford Stow-on-the-Wold Romford Billericay Aberystwyth Cardigan Carmarthen Cardiff Pontypool Bedwellty Monmouth Llanelli Llangattock Abergavenny Blaenavon Pontypridd Merthyr Tydfil Plymouth Abergavenny Pontardawe Rhondda Valley Aberdare Newport Penarth Abernant Pontymister Pontypridd Troed-y-rhiw Bridgend Oakwood Monmouth Forest of Dean Brynmawr Crickhowell Aberyschan Bedwellty Pontypool Swansea Cowbridge Maesycwmmer Nantyglo Ferndale Abergorki Brecon Dukestown Pembrey Burry Port Coleford Abersycham Clydach Valley Neath Milford Builth Wells Hay Lampeter Holywell Ffestiniog |
| People | Bagenal, Philip H Bircham, Thomas Owen, Hugh Knollys, William Edward Sclater-Booth, George (1st Baron Basing) |
| 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 |