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Series
Local Government Board: Casual Wards, Visiting Officers' Diaries
Catalogue reference: MH 18
What's it about?
MH 18
This series contains weekly diaries of visiting officers of metropolitan casual wards. The diaries give inter alia the number of vagrants in the wards at the time of inspection, the number of habitual vagrants identified, and the number...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MH 18
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Title (The name of the record)
- Local Government Board: Casual Wards, Visiting Officers' Diaries
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Date (When the record was created)
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1874-1881
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains weekly diaries of visiting officers of metropolitan casual wards. The diaries give inter alia the number of vagrants in the wards at the time of inspection, the number of habitual vagrants identified, and the number undergoing detention. Interspersed among the diaries are applications for leave, and a few letters relating to the death of individual visiting officers and applications for vacant posts.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The diaries for 1879 and 1880 are missing.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Local Government Board, 1871-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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5 files and volumes
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Diaries
- Local Government
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Inspection of metropolitan casual wards was carried out by a superintendent and visiting officers drawn from retired police constables.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10861/
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Local Government Board: Casual Wards, Visiting Officers' Diaries
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