Bath Union Notes

Reference Number: PP/2887
Level of Description: Item
Title: Bath Union Notes
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Bush, John. W (Chairman of the Board of Guardians): Author
Date: 1865
Extent: Pages: 44
Description: A short but detailed report on the state of Bath Union Workhouse in 1865 containing the following:
A list of those serving on the Board of Guardians in 1865
Bath Union (a section on the moral improvement effected by the 1834 Poor Law system and its beneficial effects on the habits of the working classes in Bath)
Bath Union Workhouse (a short history of the Workhouse up to 1865)
A list of Workhouse officers in 1865
The interior arrangements of the Workhouse (a detailed description covering the entrance hall, receiving wards for men and women, aged and infirm wards, married couples' accommodation, sick wards, rooms for the able-bodied and a description of the duties carried out within, lunatics' wards and Officers' appartments).
Workhouse Chapel (a short history with a description of the tablets therein including that at the entrance to John Plass, former inmate, who laid the stones of the chapel)
Arrangements for supplying out-relief
Tramps
Public Health
Union Assessment Committee
Report of the Commissioners in lunacy
Annual expendicture (a comparison of amounts spent by the various Bath parishes in 1838 and 1865)
To the Ratepayers of the Parish of Charlcombe
Subject: Workhouses