Title |
Edward Gulson, correspondence and papers relating to the South Western District (including unions in Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire); John Lambert, correspondence and papers relating to the North Midland District (including Cambridge, Derby, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham) and York Division
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Document Type |
Correspondence; Newspaper Clipping; Pamphlet
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Collection |
MH 32 Local Government Board and Predecessors: Assistant Poor Law Commissioners and Inspectors, Correspondence, 1834-1904
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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.
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Document Description |
Edward Gulson's reports include press reports on alleged mismanagement at Bristol, Bedminster and Clifton Workhouses. Also includes John Lambert's Report on 'Medical Relief - Dispensaries (Ireland)', 1866.
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Theme |
The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Social Order and Discipline; Education and Children; Health, Medicine and Disability
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Library/Archive |
The National Archives, UK
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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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