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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | General Inspectors: William Peel, J W Preston, Hugh Lloyd Roberts, Henry Stevens, Samuel Barrington Tristram, correspondence and papers related to the South and West Midlands Districts (includes counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire); W H Preston Thomas and the Eastern District (Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk); E B Wethered and the West Midlands (includes Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Wiltshire) |
| Reference | MH 32/104 |
| Date | 1867-1898 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Report; Official Papers; Map; Newspaper Clipping |
| 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 a copy of an issue by the 'Commissioners in Lunacy' titled 'Regulations as to Instruments and Appliances for the Mechanical Bodily Restraint of Lunatics' under the 'Lunacy Act, 1890'. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Social Reform and Welfare |
| Keywords | vagrancy rural districts boarding out children workhouse conditions outdoor relief indoor relief medical relief sick wards Union organisation population vagrant wards sanitation Public Health Act trade and commerce Board of Guardians Poor Law Board [1847-1871] poor relief Local Government Board [1871-1919] schools mental health government acts administration nursing poor relief regulation Poor Law Conference wages |
| Country | England |
| County | Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire (including Isle of Ely) Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Northamptonshire Essex Suffolk Norfolk Gloucestershire Herefordshire Wiltshire Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Leicestershire Kent Rutland Middlesex Lincolnshire |
| Places | Ampthill Bedford Biggleswade Leighton Buzzard Luton Woburn Whittlesea Wisbech Caxton and Arrington Chesterton Ely Linton Newmarket North Witchford Saint Albans Berkhamsted Bishop's Stortford Buntingford Hatfield Hemel Hempstead Hereford Hitchin Royston Ware Watford Welwyn Huntingdon St Ives St Neots Boston Bourn Caistor Gainsborough Glanford Brigg Grimsby Grantham Holbeach Horncastle Lincoln Louth Sleaford Spalding Spilsby Stamford Brentford, London Edmonton, London Hendon, London Staines-upon-Thames Uxbridge, London Willesden, London Brackley Brixworth Daventry Hardingstone Kettering Northampton Oundle Peterborough Potterspury Thrapston Towcester Wellingborough Oakham Uppingham Ashford Bleau Bridge Bromley, London Canterbury Dover Eastry Elham Hollingbourne Maidstone Malling Romney Marsh Sevenoaks Steppey Tonbridge Isle of Thanet Ashby-de-la-Zouch Barrow upon Soar Billesdon Blaby Leicester Hinckley Loughborough Lutterworth Market Bosworth Market Hanborough Melton Mowbray Basford Bingham Retford Mansfield Newark Nottingham Southwell Worksop Shardlow Hayfield Braintree Ipswich Mitford and Launditch Norwich |
| People | Peel, William Preston, J W Roberts, Hugh Lloyd Stevens, Henry Tristram, Samuel Barrington Thomas, W H Preston Wethered, E B Owen, Hugh Fleming, H Lambert, John Wodehouse, Edmond H Knollys, William Edward Provis, J B Hibbert, John T Sutton, Edward Kennedy, Henry George 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 |