Anglesey

Anglesey

Anglesey Workhouses
Holyhead Workhouse
Bangor Workhouse

Poor Law Unions in Anglesey
Anglesey
Bangor
Holyhead

Statistics

Summary of Results.
Workhouses.
Pauper inmates of Workhouse establishments in the Registration County number 97 persons of all ages, 50 Males and 47 Females.
These represent approximately 0.28% of the general population.
At advanced ages the proportion is far higher; at 55 years and upwards the % is .52% and at 65 years and upwards is .66%.

The Blind, Deaf and Dumb
The number of persons returned as Blind is 45.

Deaf and Dumb persons including 6 returned simply as Dumb, number 46.

Lunatics
Lunatics number 11, and the Imbecile and Feeble-minded 98, The total of these classes is 109. It may be noted that, of the 109 persons returned as mentally deranged, 23 were the inmates of workhouses, the remaining 86
were residing with relatives or in unlicensed houses.

Of the 23 mentally deranged persons enumerated in Workhouses, 4 were returned as a Lunatics and 19 as Imbecile, or Feeble-minded; and of the 86 not enumerated in Institutions, 7 were returned as Lunatics and 79 as Imbecile or Feeble-minded.

Source: Statistics submitted by Alan Longbottom
From Census Statistical Volume 1901
County of Anglesey 1903 Cd 1,447

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