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Date: 1954 Sept 16-1956 Nov 15
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Folios 383-385. Printed Parliamentary Paper/Report, House of Commons, 16 August 1853....
Catalogue reference: MH 12/16248/301
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- 16 Aug 1853
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- Folios 383-385. Printed Parliamentary Paper/Report, House of Commons, 16 August 1853. 'Return of all Communications which have taken place between the Poor Law Guardians of the unions of Bedminster and Cardiff, relative to the Separation of the Rural from the Urban Parishes'. Contains printed versions of: Letter from T Watkins, Clerk to the Guardians of the Cardiff Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board, referring to a memorial from the Board, adopted and sealed at a meeting held at the workhouse The printed memorial shows the ratepayers of the union request some arrangement devised by which the rural districts of the union may be separated from the town of Cardiff. The causes for this request are that the unjust pressures of the burdens imposed upon the country ratepayers are causing increased difficulties and ruin as agriculturists. The increased maintenance of the casual poor over a wider district has caused extra burden. The recent visitation of cholera caused increased expenditure for the maintenance of cholera paupers in the town, their orphan children, funeral expenses and other charges. The population of the union was 24,997 and 16,000 of this belongs to the town. The correspondence further sets out details of the population, buildings, accommodation. Letter from W G Lumley [William Golden Lumley], Assistant Secretary of the Poor Law Board to T Watkins, Clerk, dated 22 January 1850, acknowledging receipt of a letter forwarding a memorial from the Guardians of the Cardiff Poor Law Union on the subject of a proposal to separate the rural parishes from Cardiff form them into a separate Union. The Poor Law Board having considered the allegations have concluded that no sufficient grounds have been shown for any alteration. Letter from Charles C Williams, Roath Court, Cardiff, to the Poor Law Board, informing the Board that he is requested by the undersigned Guardians of the Cardiff Poor Law Union, three of whom are the guardians for the town of Cardiff, one an ex-officio guardian, a constant attendant at almost every Board meeting, Williams being a guardian of an adjoining rural parish to transmit the accompanying memorial against the separation of the Cardiff Poor Law Union. States when the memorial to which the seal of the union was agreed to, it was not the unanimous resolution of the Board but carried by a large majority, as all the guardians of the most distant rural parishes attend, it being considered a means of giving relief to agriculturists in their present distressed state. Williams asks if he may draw the Boards serious attention to a union settlement. Enclosure to the above. The memorial of the undersigned guardians of the Cardiff Poor Law Union detailing the considerations and reasons in relation to the proposal to the separation of the union. Noted within the text that the memoralists have always been anxious to remove the young from associating with the depraved characters that occasionally are inmates at the workhouse and at times there has been effort to provide a separate establishment with suitable employment. It is hoped that some legislative measures may be passed during the next Session of Parliament making it compulsory to provide separate establishments for children. The effect of the working of the Poor Law Union Acts has mostly had a beneficial result, both with regard to the comfort of the poor and the interest of the ratepayer. Of note is that Cardiff is the shipping port for export of coal and iron from the adjoining mineral districts and some are within the Cardiff Poor Law Union trading to a great extent with Ireland, the coal vessels bringing over destitute Irish in large numbers who seek employment in the mining districts and from the cheapness of their labour, are also employed in the agricultural parishes. There is scarcely work for them in Cardiff but they find houses to dwell in, in the town and return to Cardiff to lodge at night. When they land on the coast they migrate to the town where they apply for relief which as also in case of sickness or temporary illness or having lived five years without relief, are now charged to the union fund. Under the old system the whole charge would have been in Cardiff, the union workhouse being situated in the town of Cardiff, all destitute persons and vagrants come there fist hoping for food and lodging and then pass on to other unions. Lately Cardiff was afflicted with cholera whereby one 1 in 47 of their population was lost and the expenses were incurred by Cardiff and also some of the other parishes and were chiefly incurred by recommendation of Dr Sutherland, the government inspector under the Board of Health in the erection of a large wooden house for the reception of persons in whose houses cholera was raging. When the materials of which this house was erected are sold, it is confidently expected that a large sum will be repaid to the union. A further description of the area and conditions is given and also details of the inmates of the Workhouse and conditions therein. Tables are provided showing the number of children in the house as at 25 December 1849, how many where chargeable to Cardiff, Country Parishes and Union funds. A table is provided showing the Names of Parishes within the Cardiff Poor Law Union, the valuation in 1836, the population by census of 1831, the valuation of 1849, and the population by census of 1841 and it is suggested that an assistant poor law commissioner should be sent down to examine and report on the present working of the union. Signed Charles C Williams, E P Richards, J Stacey, Michael Morgan, John Batchelor, William Jones. A table is provided showing the Return of Paupers Relieved In and Out Door for the half year September 1849. That table shows the names of the parishes comprised in the union, the number of males, females and children in both In Door and Out Door relief. It also shows the number of vagrants relieved in the workhouse for one night and charged to the union and the cost of In Door maintenance for the half year ending September 1849. [Continued at MH 12/16248/] Poor Law Union Number 613. Counties: Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire.
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