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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | W O Markham, correspondence and papers relating to the Metropolitan District (including Islington, Kensington, Poplar and Shoreditch) |
| Reference | MH 32/55 |
| Date | 1866-1870 |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| 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; Health, Medicine and Disability |
| Keywords | diet workhouse conditions alcohol healthcare sick wards infirmary able bodied contagious disease infectious diseases nutrition mental health asylum almshouse hospital indoor relief outdoor relief casual poor Poor Law Board [1847-1871] living conditions medicine schools ophthalmia blindness (visual impairment) wayfaring poor epidemic sanitation vagrancy |
| Country | England |
| County | London Middlesex |
| Places | Kensington, London Islington, London Poplar, London Shoreditch, London Fulham, London Bromley, London Strand, London Lambeth, London Holborn, London Chelsea, London Rotherhithe, London Bethnal Green, London Westminster, London Stepney, London Marylebone, London St Pancras, London Whitechapel, London Greenwich, London Hackney, London Paddington, London Lewisham, London |
| People | Markham, W O |
| 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 |