Metropolitan workhouses (infirmary wards). Copy of report of H. B. Farnall, esquire, Poor Law inspector, on the infirmary wards of the severall metropolitan workhouses, and their existing arrangements / (Mr. Childers).

  • Farnall, H. B.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Metropolitan workhouses (infirmary wards). Copy of report of H. B. Farnall, esquire, Poor Law inspector, on the infirmary wards of the severall metropolitan workhouses, and their existing arrangements / (Mr. Childers). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    METROPOLITAN WORKHOUSES (INFIRMARY WARDS). RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 2 July 1866;—-for, COPY “ of Report of H. B. Fai'nall, Esquire, Poor Law Inspector, on the Infirmary Wards of the several Metropolitan Workhouses, and their existing Arrangements.” Poor Law Boards W. G. LUMLEY, 2 July 1866. / Assistant Secretary. REPORT of H. B. Farnall, Esquire, Poor Law Inspector, on the Infirmary Wards of the several Metropolitan Workhouses, and their existing Arrangements. (No. 11,217—1866.) Poor Law Board, Whitehall, S. W. My Lords and Gentlemen, 12 June 1866. On the 3rd of April last, you instructed me to make a careful inspection ef the infirmary wards of the several metropolitan workhouses, and to inquire into existing arrangements, and to report the result of such inspection and inquiry to your Board. The points to which you particularly directed my attention were— “ The adequacy of the accommodation provided in respect both of size and ventilation and suitableness of the wards, and their beds and bedding, and other furniture.” “ The sufficiency of the arrangements for the supply of medical attendance and medicine.” “ The provision for the nursing and care of the sick.” Finalty, your Board requested me “to suggest such alterations as might ap- pear to be advisable in the present system, and the arrangements of each work- house, in order to secure satisfactory treatment and care for the sick poor of the metropolis.” I have now the honour of reporting to you that I have, in conjunction with Dr. Edward Smith, carefully inspected the infirmary wards of the following 40 workhouses, and that I commenced these inspections on the 4th of April, and completed them on the 1st instant, viz. :—Lambeth ; St. Saviour’s ; Bermondsey ; St. Olave’s; St. George-the-Martyr; Greenwich; St. Marylebone ; St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury ; St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; the Strand ; Hulborn ; Clerkenwell; Whitechapel ; Shoreditch ; Mile-end Old Town ; City of London ; Stepney; Poplar; St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, at Petty France; St. James, Westminster; Kensington: St. George, Hanover-square, Mounts street; St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, at Kensington ; Hackney ; East London ; Islington ; Chelsea ; Fulham ; St. George, Hanover-square, at Chelsea ; St. George-in-the-East; Rotherhithe ; St. Pancras ; Bethnal Green ; Camberwell; St. Luke, Middlesex; St. Mary, Newington; Wandsworth and Clapham ; Hampstead; and West London. 3^7- ^ These