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Catalogue description Local Government Board: Casual Wards, Visiting Officers' Diaries
| Reference: | MH 18 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Local Government Board: Casual Wards, Visiting Officers' Diaries |
| Description: |
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. |
| Date: | 1874-1881 |
| Separated material: |
The diaries for 1879 and 1880 are missing. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Local Government Board, 1871-1919 |
| Physical description: | 5 files and volumes |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Inspection of metropolitan casual wards was carried out by a superintendent and visiting officers drawn from retired police constables. |
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