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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | John Walsham, correspondence and papers related to the Northern District (includes unions in Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland and Westmorland), 1835-1837 |
| Reference | MH 32/76 |
| Date | 1835-1837 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Report; Newspaper Clipping; Pamphlet |
| 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 report of 1837 on the general condition of the working classes, prospects of employment, rates of wages and price of provisions during winter. |
| Theme | The Poor Laws, Workhouses and Outdoor Relief; Social Reform and Welfare |
| Keywords | medical relief registration government bills Union organisation children Poor Law Commission [1834-1847] government acts outdoor relief indoor relief mental health sick wards workhouse conditions food elections illegitimacy workhouse rules poor rates labour wages provisions trade and commerce social unrest discontent poor relief regulation |
| Country | England |
| County | Cumberland Durham Northumberland Westmorland Dorset |
| Places | Cranborne Poole Shaftesbury Sturminster Blandford Cerne Sherborne Dorchester Weymouth Bellingham Morpeth Rothbury Castle Ward Tynemouth Sunderland Newcastle Bellingham Sedgefield Teesdale Stockton Lanchester Alnwick Hartlepool Gateshead Hexham Chester-le-Street Darlington Auckland Weardale Houghton-le-Spring Stockton |
| People | Walsham, John Lefevre, John George Shaw Chadwick, Edwin |
| Additional Information | Use the corresponding MH 33 Register of correspondence linked below to help search within this volume. [Note: Only John Walsham correspondence from 1836-1846 is recorded in the corresponding Register.] |
| 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 Weale and Walsham, 1834-1846] |