Folios 692-695. Letter from Mr Gething and Mr Cripwell, members of the committee...

Folios 692-695. Letter from Mr Gething and Mr Cripwell, members of the committee appointed by the vestry and ratepayers of the parish of Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission [Poor Law Board], regarding vaccination fees. They complain that an exorbitant sum was made against their parish for vaccinations at the last audit and was discussed at a vestry meeting. The medical officer in question stated that he has got the money and will keep it. On examining a copy of the book of the persons vaccinated they found that a great number of the number of them should not have been charged to the parish. A report was made and sent to the Mansfield board but they have had no official reply. They enclose a copy of the report.

The report complains that the bulk of the people vaccinated are in a position to pay and ask does the act empower the medical officer to pauperize them by charging them to the parish and are they obliged to pay. There was also a lot of people charged who are workers at Hollins and Company's Mill and who have a medical club themselves, the medical officer in question is their medical attendant, who for a fixed payment per head, per year, gives them all the medical aid they require.

They think the law is defective and the local boards should be instructed to transmit to charges affecting each separate parish to the overseers, who in turn should put the charges before the parishioners for examination before they are paid. They request that the last audit be re-opened and these accounts revised.

Also included is an extract from the medical register of vaccinations performed in the parish of Mansfield Woodhouse for the half year ending 25/3/63, it includes names, ages, some parishes and the cost charged for the vaccinations.

The names are as follows; Thomas Fisher, May Harkinson, Ann Peat, John Barks, Ann Considine, Henry Bull, Ellen Bull, Elizabeth Woodcock, J Witham, Emma Cresswell, Mary Jennings, M A Marsden, [Ann Goodacre], Mary Bell, Mary Benson, James Thrall, George West, Ann Short, [M M Holehouse], [Eliza Masthole], Susan Olleway, E A Clark, Herbert Ashley, [Hannah Goodacre], John Brookes, Ann Flint, Jacob Featherstone, [Islet Featherstone], Charlotte Burton, Rachel Ashley, Ann Featherstone, Ruth Johnson, [Ellen Goodacre], [Sarah Jane Goodacre], Elizabeth Johnson, Ann Featherstone, Fanny Featherstone, Eliza Johnson, Margaret Johnson, Jane Allsop, Sarah Allsop, Mary Antcliff, Emma Harvey, Eliza Harvey, Jane Newton, Elizabeth Newton, Ellen Cook, Elizabeth Pogmore, Eliza Barlow, Thomas Holmes, William Langdon and Ann Newton, all of no noted parish, David Dawes, H Chipman, Elizabeth Chipman, Elizabeth Chipman, [John Robert Abdy], George Rossiter, H J Bingley, Samuel Richards, George Cudworth, Thomas Hardwick, M A Oscroft, Hannah Freeman, Sarah Moore, [Mary Shimack], Rosa Cudworth, Elizabeth Oscroft, Emma Slaney, Henry Lee, Ann Cook, W W Lowe, Charles Hayes, Fanny Freeman, [Henry West], [George Autehehe] William West, John Connery, [L A Hurt], Mary Lee, Jane Needham, Samuel Radcliff, Samuel Cook, Robert Sissons, Mary Marriot, Mary Green, Thomas Smith, and Ann Dunstan all of Pleasley parish, R Shaw, Samuel Simms, Mary Haywood, John Heywood, Matilda Heywood, Samuel Heywood, Mary Lunt, James Rositer, William Rositer, Hannah Hayes, Frank Hayes, Roger Longshaw, Ellen Longshaw, Frederick Longshaw, John Smith, Hannah Simms, M A Hayes, Abraham Heywood, Joseph Hayes, Thomas Heath, H W Witham, Maria Cox, Eliza Speed, Mary Busby, Mary Bennett, [Ann Atherley], Mary Yates, Elizabeth Osbourne, Thomas Neale, Jacob Monks, Elizabeth Marshall, Alice Smith, John Cook, George Holmes, Mary Marriott, Ann Slack, Ellen Slack, Abigail Shaw, Maria Shaw, Ann Shaw, Ann Marriott, Eliza Frith, May Short, Eliza Cox, Eliza Gill, Esther Cox, Harriet Marshall, Samuel Samson, Sarah Ball, Sarah West, Joseph Avery, Alice Riddins, Harriet Marchant, Eliza Whelpdale, Joseph Ball, Ann Clark, Eliza Bennett, Enoch Wilson, James Bingley, Samuel Goodall, Sarah Wilson, Ann Whileman, [Dorothy Thrall], John Rushton, Jane Connery, Mary Chappel, Hannah Beaton, Susan Castle, Emma Loose, Amy Marriott, Charles Holmes, Henry Morley, William Connery, Maria Hayes, Ann Speed, Hannah Heather, Lucy Hartington, Eliza Marshall, Hannah Gill, Mary Gill, [Harriet Blackley, John Woodcock, Elizabeth Woodcock, Elizabeth Dutton, Eliza Frith, Hannah Bennett, James Neale(female), Sarah Simms, Harry Wookcock, Thomas Theale, [William Consertine], Elizabeth Price, Frank Dutton, Sarah Dutton, [William Stayes], [Ann Lunt}, Maria Booth, [Will Longshaw], Eliza Peet, Eliza Chantry, Frank Allsop and [Hannah Eadson] all of Mansfield Woodhouse parish, Joseph Else of Mansfield parish, and Elizabeth Hall of HalShirebrook parish.

Annotated: report not enclosed. L B, 14 October 1863.

Also annotated: what audit do they refer to, and did they attend before the auditor and object to the charges, if so what was the result? 15 October 1863.

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Paper Number: 37066/1863.

Poor Law Union Number: 337.

Counties: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.