Folios 749-750. Letter from John Humphreys, Clerk to the Guardians of the Bromsgrove...

Folios 749-750. Letter from John Humphreys, Clerk to the Guardians of the Bromsgrove Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Board. He reports taking the letter from the Board dated 1 April, 13282/1871, regarding the defects in the accommodation for the sick, to the guardians and a proposition was made by Lord Lyttelton, Chairman, that the subject should be considered at the next meeting and a special notice of this should be sent to every guardian and Mr Longe [Francis Davy Longe], Poor Law Inspector, be requested to attend. This meeting took place on 18 April and it was unanimously resolved that the following alterations and rearrangements be made: 1. Use the room now used for imbeciles on the women's side of the infirmary as a lying in ward. 2. Use the present lying in ward as a nurse's room and put a door between those rooms on the inside. 3. The room lately used as a schoolroom between the men and boys' yards to be for the use of the aged men and the floor to be boarded over. 4. Take down the partition between the nurse's present rooms to form one room to be used by aged women.

Humphreys draws their attention to the fact that the workhouse was built to accommodate 320 inmates but in the whole of last winter the highest number was just 150, the present number being 135.

Annotated: Mr Longe.

Paper Number: 16533/1871.

Poor Law Union Number: 526.

Counties: Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.