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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | John Walsham, correspondence and papers relating to the Eastern District (including Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk and Suffolk) |
| Reference | MH 32/82 |
| Date | 1848-1852 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Report; Floorplan; 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 some drawings and diagrams of workhouses, local reports of concern at the effects on the productive trades of Free Trade in 1850, and the insufficiency of workhouse schooling. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Sanitation, Slums and Housing; Social Reform and Welfare; Manufacturing, Technology and Trade; Education and Children |
| Keywords | Poor Law Commission [1834-1847] Schoolmaster/Schoolmistress children education schools literacy wages vagrancy oakum picking wayfaring poor vagrant wards hygiene sewage slum sick wards venereal disease epidemic contagious disease health sanitation medical relief cholera agriculture ventilation engineering living conditions miasma pollution plumbing sanitation teachers diet food inspection legislation government bills government acts audits labour trade and commerce carpenter bricklaying wages able bodied indoor relief outdoor relief nutrition sailors police punishment military navy vagrancy prison apprentices clothing medicine |
| Country | England Wales |
| County | Cambridgeshire (including Isle of Ely) Norfolk Suffolk Essex Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Radnorshire Kent |
| Places | Aylsham Bishop's Stortford Billericay Blofield Blything Bosmere and Claydon Cambridge Caxton and Arrington Yarmouth Norwich Lynn Ipswich Bury St Edmunds Sudbury Colchester Royston Braintree Buntingford St Ives Rochford Chelmsford Chesterton Cosford Depwade Docking Downham Dunmow Ely Epping Erpingham Forehoe Freebridge Lynn Guiltcross Halstead Hartismere Heckingham Henstead Hitchin Hoxne Maldon Loddon and Clavering Linton Lexden King's Lynn St Ives Ipswich Huntingdon Mildenhall Mitford and Launditch Newmarket North Witchford Norwich Ongar Plomesgate Swaffham Sudbury Stow Samford Saffron Walden Royston Rochford Risbridge Tendring Thetford Thingoe Walsingham Wangford Wayland Welwyn Great Yarmouth Woodbridge Wilham Wisbech Whittlesea Lexden and Winstree Brackley Risbridge Romford Blean Bridge Canterbury Dartford Dover Eastry Faversham Gravesend Milton Hoo Medway Aylesford Sheppey Thanet Tunstead Happing |
| People | Walsham, John Hall, Richard Tufnell, Edward Carleton Head, Edmund W Owen, Hugh |
| 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 |