Metropolitan workhouses. Copy of report of U. Corbett, and W. O. Markham, Poor Law inspectors, to the right honourable Gathorne Hardy, President of the Poor Law Board, dated the 18th day of January 1867, relative to the metropolitan workhouses / Galthorne Hardy.

  • Hardy, Galthorne.
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1867
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Credit: Metropolitan workhouses. Copy of report of U. Corbett, and W. O. Markham, Poor Law inspectors, to the right honourable Gathorne Hardy, President of the Poor Law Board, dated the 18th day of January 1867, relative to the metropolitan workhouses / Galthorne Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    METROPOLITAN WORKHOUSES. RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 8 February 1867 /or, “ COPY of Report of U. Corbett, Junior, Enquire, and W. O. Markham, Esquire, m.d., Poor Law Inspectors, to the Right Honourable Gathorne Hardy, m.p. President of the Poor Law Board, dated the 18th day of January 1867, relative to the Metropolitan Workhouses.” Poor Law Board, \ RALPH A. EARLE, 8 February 1867. J Secretary. REPORT of U. Corbett, Junior, Esquire, and IV. O. Markham, Esquire, m.d., Poor Law Inspectors, to the Right Honourable Gathorne Hardy, m. p., President of the Poor Law Board, dated 18th January 1867, relative to the Metropolitan Workhouses. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria street, Sir, 18 January 1867. In accordance with the instructions contained in a letter addressed to. us by the Poor Law Board, of date 11 August 1866, we have visited the 43 work- houses included in the Metropolitan District for the purpose of inquiring: “ 1. With respect to the immediate arrangements necessary for im- proving the existing infirmaries and sick wards, and the system of medical attendance and nursing ; and, “ 2. With respect to the more extensive alterations generally required for permanently insuring the proper care and treatment of the sick poor throughout the Metropolitan District.” We have already answered the first of these inquiries in special reports, wherein we have recommended such improvements as might in our judgment be immediately effected. We have now to consider and report upon the second branch of the inquiry in relation to which we were instructed to ascertain:— “ 1. Whether the workhouse is or is not generally adapted for its purposes ? “ 2. Whether it is capable of such adaption, either by altering the internal arrangements, or extending the existing buildings ? “ 3. If not, whether the workhouse can be made suitable for paupers of any particular class or classes, if the lunatics and children, or any other class, were placed elsewhere ? “4. How many inmates of each class were in the workhouse on the 1st of February and the 1st of August 1866 ? “ 5. If the accommodation for the several classes of inmates, other than the sick, is not sufficient, what further provision is requisite ? “ 6. How many inmates were on the Workhouse Medical Relief Book on 18. a the