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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Robert Weale, correspondence and papers relating to the North and West Midlands Districts (including unions in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire) and the South Midlands Districts (including unions at Edmonton, Hatfield, Leicester, Loughborough and Saint Neots) |
| Reference | MH 32/89 |
| Date | 1855-1867 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Newspaper Clipping; Report; Returns Form |
| 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 copies of press reports on pauperism in Birmingham and a copy of the returns (Viscount Duncan) to Parliament on poor relief in 1855. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Education and Children; Health, Medicine and Disability; Manufacturing, Technology and Trade |
| Keywords | Board of Guardians Poor Law Board [1847-1871] agriculture industrial training education labour schools children administration inspection indoor relief outdoor relief workhouse costs legislation taxes clothing food diet nutrition trade and commerce manufacturing districts workhouse construction pauperism Schoolmaster/Schoolmistress Catholic religion extra-parochial areas district schools police vagrancy wages emigration colonies marriage orphan wayfaring poor healthcare bastardy laws widows asylum prostitution mental health sanitation medical relief ventilation arson medicine rural poverty ribbon weavers apprentices physical restraint illegitimacy epilepsy |
| Country | England |
| County | Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Buckinghamshire Leicestershire Middlesex Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire Northamptonshire Rutland |
| Places | Edmonton, London Hatfield Leicester Loughborough Saint Neots Hendon, London King's Norton Oundle Melton Mowbray Hendon, London Brixworth Blaby Loughborough Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Hitchin Bedford Watford Edmonton, London Enfield Royston Hendon, London Biggleswade Foleshill Atherstone Ware Billesdon Mansfield Aston Cuckfield Northampton Berkhamsted Buntingford Kettering Wakerley Broadfield Market Harborough Ashby-de-la-Zouch Market Bosworth Potterspury Wellingborough Basford Uppingham Rugby Barrow upon Soar Woburn Hemel Hempstead Nuneaton Leighton Buzzard Coventry Ampthill Luton St Albans Barnet Hatfield Hinchley Lutterworth Daventry Hardingstone Meriden Thrapston Towcester Oakham Solihull Southam Stratford-upon-Avon Welwyn |
| People | Weale, Robert Lumley, William Golden Walsham, John Twining, Louisa Villiers, Charles Pelham Smith, Dr Edward Manwaring, John Kay, James Phillips [later Kay-Shuttleworth] 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 |