Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on the training of pauper children : with appendices.

  • Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on the training of pauper children : with appendices. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XIII. REPORT ON THE TRAINING OF PAUPER CHILDREN IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. By Sir John Walsham, Bart., Assistant Poor Law Commissioner. Newcastle-vpon-Tyne, 30th March, 1840. Gentlemen, Having duly received your directions to furnish you with a report on the state of the workhouse schools in my district, I framed a circular embodying the points on which information appeared necessary, and transmitted it on the 11th ultimo to thirty-one out of the thirty-six Unions which I have in charge. I did not address such circular to the remaining five Unions; viz., Bellingham, Haltwhistle, Easington, Sedgefield, and Roth- bury, because in the two latter there were only three or four children, and in the two former the workhouses were yet un- finished, whilst the few in-door paupers belonging to Easington are at present maintained in the Houghton workhouse. The thirty-one Unions from which I have received returns may be conveniently divided, having regard to popidation, into three classes :— A. The first class would comprise the ten Unions of,— 1. Berwick. 2. Carlisle. 3. Cockermouth. 4. Gateshead. 5. Hexham. 6. Morpeth. 7. South Shields 8. Sunderland. 9. Tynemouth. 10. Whitehaven. And from these ten Unions I have selected five (as being im- portant localities of which the educational arrangements and pro- gress must be always matter of considerable interest), in order to lay before you, under the head of Enclosure 1, the whole of the reports which I have received from the clerks of the Berwick, Carlisle, Hexham, Sunderland, and Whitehaven Unions; to which reports, and more particularly to those from Berwick and Carlisle, I would therefore request your attention ; the Berwick Union being, perhaps, the only one in my district where, owing to circumstances that I shall have shortly occasion to mention, the education of pauper children according to the plan developed under your sanction at Norwood has been practically com- menced. With reference to the five remaining Unions of Cockermouth, Gateshead, Newcastle, South Shields, and Tynemouth, the new