Record revealed
Letter from a ‘destitute’ man to the Poor Law Commission
In this letter, Thomas Henshaw of Derbyshire complained of his treatment by local officials who denied him welfare despite his ‘most distressing’ situation.
Series
Department of Health: Provision of Care for the Homeless and Rootless: Registered...
Catalogue reference: JA 659
What's it about?
JA 659
This series contains files relating to the provision of care for the homeless and rootless
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JA 659
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health: Provision of Care for the Homeless and Rootless: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1985-1997
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files relating to the provision of care for the homeless and rootless
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Series arranged in file reference order (within each transfer).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- HOM prefix
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 42 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Department of Health and Social Care
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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
- Poverty
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Prefix noted as in use by File Office 835 at Departmental Record Office audit in October 1995. The prefix was transferred to File Office 981 in January 2000 and noted as closed at the branch audit in March 2001.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16861425/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
43,614 records
Within the department: JA
Records created or inherited by the Department of Health (1988-)
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Department of Health: Provision of Care for the Homeless and Rootless: Registered Files
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