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Catalogue reference: MH 82/49
Date: 1954 Sept 16-1956 Nov 15
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Folios 391-394. Letter from J Watkins, Clerk to Guardians of the Cardiff Poor Law...
Catalogue reference: MH 12/16248/304
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- 31 Dec 1849
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- Folios 391-394. Letter from J Watkins, Clerk to Guardians of the Cardiff Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board, in respect of a memorial from the guardians of the Cardiff Poor Law Union adopted and sealed at a meeting of the Board held on 29 December. Annotated: to return the copy of the Merthyr and Cardiff guardians, Mr Williams and Mr Richards, addresses - reported at page 4 - are worthy of the attention of the board. Reply to this memorial. E H [Edward Hurst, Poor Law Inspector]. There is no reason to alter the unions. Included is a printed newspaper article on the Cardiff Poor Law Union. Reporting on a meeting of the rate payers held in the Town Hall having been convened by the mayor regarding the separating of the town from the country parishes of the union. Charles Vachell, Mayor, chaired the meeting which was crowded to excess and held in the meeting room. The newspaper article provides extensive description on the state of the parishes and the reasons for and against the separation. Also included is a memorial in respect of the necessity of some arrangement being devised by which the rural district of the union might be separated from the town of Cardiff and the latter formed into a separate union of itself. The causes for the conclusion after 13 years of the ruinous effects arising out of the connection with the town of Cardiff and unless some course is adopted to relieve the rural districts from the pressure of the burdens imposed by the connection of the 11 and 12 Victoria, the present demands on the country rate payers cannot continue without increased difficulties and expedited ruin as agriculturists. If a favourable view is taken, it will not only be granting to them the relief they are entitled to, but also afford the paupers resident within the rural parishes a most essential benefit and moral improvement by withdrawing them from the contamination of the workhouse. Further states, however just it may be to distribute the maintenance of casual poor over a wider district in order to equalise the burden, the memoralists consider that it is uncalled for in this union as the parochial burdens previous to the enactment of 11 and 12 Victoria, were higher in many of the country parishes than in the town of Cardiff, instead it equalises the burdens, the effects being opposite of reducing the cost of maintaining the poor in Cardiff and increasing it in the rural parishes. An example is explained, showing how the burdens upon the rural parishes are augmented by their union with Cardiff. On the recent visit of cholera, the sum of £1,352 17 2 was charged to the common fund of the union for medical attendance and some other expenses exclusively for the town of Cardiff, independent of these charges for maintenance of cholera paupers in the town and their orphan children, also of funeral expenses and other charges amounting to a very serious sum. Other reasons given in support for a division of the union is the population increase and expected further increase due to its position with the manufacturing districts and increasing trade as a sea port town. Further states that the memoralists are fully persuaded from previous experience that the amalgamation of the rural parishes with the town is an impediment to the proper management of the union and very detrimental to its interests - measures having been frequently suggested which seem adapted to meet the requirements of the town but rejected by the country guardians. They refer to attempts made to establish an industrial school for the children in the workhouse, this subject being discussed often yet the country guardians withhold their consent, alleging the children in the house are from Cardiff, the rural districts ought not to incur any portion of the expense of buying land and erecting suitable buildings for that purpose. The details of the number of in-door children and where they are distributed is set out. Mention is made of attempts to increase the accommodations in the house by the erection of fever wards but the guardians have not sanctioned the suggestion. Details of the number of medical cases is set out and the distribution of these numbers is given. Paper Number: 122/1850. Poor Law Union Number 613. Counties: Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire.
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