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Alstonfield
Burton Upon Trent
Cannock
Cheadle
Dudley
Leek
Lichfield
Newcastle under Lyne
Seisdon
Stafford
Stoke Upon Trent
Stone
Tamworth
Uttoxeter
Walsall
West Bromwich
Wigmore
Wolstanton and Burslem
Wolverhampton
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Staffordshire Poor Law Unions and Workhouses
Poor Law Unions classified within the County of Stafford are:
Burton upon Trent,
Cannock,
Cheadle,
Dudley,
Leek,
Lichfield,
Newcastle under Lyme,
Seisdon,
Stafford,
Stoke on Trent,
Stone,
Tamworth,
Uttoxeter,
Walsall,
West Bromwich,
Wolstanton and Burslem and
Wolverhampton.
Staffordshire Record Office
County Buildings
Eastgate Street
Stafford
ST16 2LZ
Telephone: U.K. 01785 278379
http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/archives/index.htm
Lichfield Record Office
The Friary
Lichfield
Staffs
WS13 6QG
Telephone: U.K. 01543 510720
Dudley Archives
Mount Pleasant Street
Coseley
West Midlands
WV14 9JR
Telephone 01384 812770
Sandwell Archives Service
Smethwick Library
High Street
Smethwick
Warley
West Midlands
B66 1AB
Telephone: 0121 558 2561
Walsall Local History Centre
Essex Street
Walsall
West Midlands
WS2 7AS
Telephone: 01922 721305
Wolverhampton Archives & Local Studies
42-50 Snow Hill
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV2 4AG
Telephone: 01902 552480
Twenty Second Report of the Commissioners in
Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor
p 255 J - Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867
With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of
insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates, Male/Female/Tot
Stafford
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MALE |
FEMALE |
TOTAL |
| Cheadle |
2 |
7 |
9 |
| Leek |
2 |
7 |
9 |
| Stafford |
13 |
15 |
28 |
| Stone |
2 |
2 |
4 |
| Tamworth |
1 |
3 |
4 |
| Uttoxeter |
7 |
8 |
15 |
| Walsall |
6 |
8 |
14 |
| West Bromwich |
21 |
27 |
48 |
| Wolstanton and Burslem |
8 |
8 |
16 |
| Wolverhampton |
35 |
37 |
72 |
From Census Statistical Volume 1901
County of Stafford PP 1902 Cd 1,125
Submitted by Alan Longbottom
Summary of Results.
Workhouses.
Pauper inmates of Workhouse establishments in the Registration County number
6,835 persons of all ages, 4,152 Males and 2,683 Females.
These represent approximately 0.5% of the general population.
At advanced ages the proportion is far higher; at 55 years and upwards the % is
3.0% and at 65 years and upwards is 4.9%.
Prisons
Prisoners in the Local and Convict Prisons in the Registration County number
501. 410 Males and 91 Females.
The Blind, Deaf and Dumb
The number of persons returned as Blind is 822, and of these 23 suffer from some
other Infirmity also.
Deaf and Dumb persons including 44 returned simply as Dumb, number 604, and of
these 16 suffer from some other Infirmity also.
Lunatics
Lunatics number 2,638, including 5 afflicted with some other Infirmity also; and
the Imbecile and Feeble-minded 2,019, including 21 otherwise afflicted. The
total of these classes is 4,657.
It may be noted that, of the 4,657 persons returned as mentally deranged, 3,584
were the inmates of institutions, including 2,671 in Public and Private
Lunatic Asylums, 910 in Workhouses, and 3 in other Institutions, the remaining
1,073 were residing with relatives or in unlicensed houses.
Of the 910 mentally deranged persons enumerated in Workhouses, 119 were returned
as a Lunatic and 791 as Imbecile, or Feeble-minded; and of the 1,073 not
enumerated in Institutions, 18 were returned as Lunatics and 1,055 as Imbecile
or Feeble-minded.
The following books may help, details as follows:
Williams,Cyril The staffordshire general hospital : a history of the hospital
from 1765
Rampopal, T A chronicle of the Staffordsire General Infirmary , oldest voluntary
hospital in staffordshire 1765-1948 (isbn: 1897898479)
Bewick, Robert History of a provincial hospital
Chadwick, Max A history of St. Edwards hospital, Cheddleton near Leek,
Staffordshire (isbn: 1897949014) 1993
Source: Shire Hall Library, Stafford.
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