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Field name	Value
Title	Alfred Power, correspondence and papers related to the North Western District (includes Lancashire and West Derbyshire)
Reference	MH 32/64
Date	1838-1847
Document Type	Correspondence; Official Papers; Pamphlet; 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.
Theme	The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Social Reform and Welfare
Keywords	manufacturing districts Board of Guardians indoor relief workhouse conditions elections Poor Law Commission [1834-1847] legislation Union organisation administration poor relief population Whig Party poor rates press social unrest riots settlement laws fever typhus water sanitation infectious diseases bastardy laws audits elderly diet chaplaincy government bills mental health asylum infanticide poor law opposition medical relief workhouse rules
Country	England
County	Lancashire Derbyshire Cheshire Yorkshire (including East, North and West Riding) Shropshire Worcestershire Oxfordshire Warwickshire Northamptonshire Shropshire Gloucestershire Monmouthshire Staffordshire Herefordshire
Places	Amersham Abergavenny Aston Aylesbury Alcester Banbury Bicester Brackley Bridgworth Bromyard Buckingham Chepstow Cheltenham Chipping Norton Cleobury Mortimer Crickhowell Daventry Dore Droitwich Dudley Evesham Foleshill Gloucester Hardingstone Headington Kidderminster King's Norton Ledbury Madeley Martley Market Drayton Meriden Monmouth Newent Newport Northleach Nuneaton Pershore Pontypool Potterspury Rugby Ross Shifnal Shipston-on-Stour Seisdon Solihull Southam Stow-on-the-Wold Stratford-upon-Avon Stowbridge Thame Tenbury Tewkesbury Towcester Upton-upon-Severn Warwick Walsall Wellington West Bromwich Weobley Westbury Winslow Witney Winchcombe Woodstock Wolverhampton Worcester Stockport Ashton-under-Lyne Blackburn Bolton Burnley Bury Chorlton Clitheroe The Fylde Garstang Haslingden Leigh Oldham Ormskirk Prescot Preston Rochdale Salford Todmorden Warrington West Derby Wigan Bradford Dewsbury Halifax Huddersfield Keighley Pateley Bridge Settle Skipton Wakefield
People	Power, Alfred Chadwick, Edwin Russell, Lord John (1st Earl Russell) Stephens, Joseph Rayner
Additional Information	Use the corresponding MH 33 Register of correspondence linked below to help search within this volume.
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
This correspondence document is linked to	[Register of Correspondence for Assistant Commissioners Parry, Pigott, Pilkington, Power, Revans, Senior and Stevens, 1834-1846]

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