Work in the Workhouse

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I visited the house on Saturday the 11th Inst. and found it in a tolerably clean condition. In several of the Dormitories however the paupers were engaged in washing and scouring the floor etc. at four o'clock in the afternoon. - It is highly important that the washing of the floors etc. should be finished at an early hour in the day, in order that they may be thoroughly dried before the Paupers enter them for the night. - Otherwise the health of the inmates could not but be endangered. -

Samuel Horsley
Union Inspector
Dec 13th 1847.

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Q1 - Apparently well ventilated - yards might be kept more cleanly
Q2 - Yes - we think the inmates do appear clean and appear decent and orderly
Q3 - Yes - so far as circumstances permit
Q4 - Yes - so far as circumstances admit
Q5 - Those of the class referred to are we think attended to according to their conditions
Q6 - We have not examined the Children as to their progress - the books send forward by the Commissioners of National Education have not yet arrived - a circumstance which should be enquired into by the Clerk
Q7 + 8 - Yes applys to Query No. 7 & 8
Q9 - We think they are so far as we have found
Q10 - We are informed he does attend regularly
Q11 - Infirmary Inmates do appear in a satisfactory state - No infectious disease at present - We think there are some children not vaccinated.
Q12 - The Chaplains celebrate Divine Service - prayers not read we believe as yet.
Q13 - Yes, so far as we can learn
Q14 - At present the provisions etc. are of the quality required
Q15 - We think so
Q16 - Some trivial complaints have been made in respect of provisions and bad treatment.