Yorkshire Workhouses
 

North Riding
East Riding
West Riding

Yorkshire Poor Law Unions and Workhouses

Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
St Anthony's Hall
Peasholme Green
York
YO1 7PW
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/ 

West Yorkshire Archive Service
http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/ 

Poor Law Unions in Yorkshire divided into East, North and West Riding for ease of Navigation.

NORTON
Was an out-relief union in 1909. No workhouse.

Census Statistics
Summary of Results.
Workhouses.
Pauper inmates of Workhouse establishments in the Registration County number 14,710 persons of all ages, 8,906 Males and 5,804 Females. These represent approximately 0.4% of the general population, the % having remained stationary since 1891.
At advanced ages the proportion is far higher; at 55 years and upwards the % is 2.2% and at 65 years and upwards is 3.6%.

Prisons
Prisoners in Local and Convict Prisons in the Registration County number 1,379, against 1,301 in 1891. Of these 1,075 are Males
and 304 Females. 

Blind, Deaf and Dumb
The number of persons returned as Blind is 2,673, and of these 80 suffer from some other Infirmity also.

Deaf and Dumb persons including 123 returned simply as Dumb, number 1,655 against 1,673 in 1891 and of these 34 suffer from some other Infirmity also.

Lunatics
Lunatics number 6,934, including 35 afflicted with some other Infirmity also; and the Imbecile and Feeble-minded 4,122 including 43 otherwise afflicted. The total of these classes is 11,056 as
against 8,042 in 1891. 

In comparing these figures, however, attention must be paid to the fact that the eading to the Infirmities Column of the Census Schedule was not uniform at the two Censuses.

In 1891 the words adopted were "Lunatic, Imbecile or Idiot" and this expression might have led to more frequent concealment of cases of mental derangement than the form of words adopted at the recent Census, when Occupiers were instructed to describe the afflicted person either under the title of Lunatic or under
that of Imbecile, feeble minded.

For these reasons a calculation of the increase per-cent on the population would be misleading. It may be noted that, of the 11,056 persons returned as mentally deranged, 8,361 were the 
inmates of institutions, including 6,974 in Public and Private Lunatic Asylums, 1,374 in Workhouses, and 13 in another Institution,
the remaining 2,695 were residing with relatives or in unlicensed houses.

Of the 1,374 mentally deranged persons enumerated in Workhouses, 154 were returned as Lunatics and 1,220 as Imbecile, or Feeble-minded; and of the 2,695 not enumerated in Institutions, 72 were returned
as Lunatics and 2,623 as Imbecile or Feeble-minded.

Source: Submitted by Alan Longbottom
From Census Statistical Volume 1901
County of Yorkshire in PP 1902 Vol CXXI Cd 1,107

Twenty Second Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor

Source: From PP 1867/68 Vol XXXI pp 1-301
Twenty Second Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

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