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Caernarvonshire Workhouses
Poor Law Unions in Caernarvonshire
Caernarvon
Conway
Pwllheli
Statistics
Summary of Results.
Workhouses.
Pauper inmates of Workhouse establishments in the Registration County number 375
persons of all ages, 187 Males and 188 Females.
These represent approximately 0.27% of the general population.
At advanced ages the proportion is far higher; at 55 years and upwards the % is
.83% and at 65 years and upwards is 1.21%.
Prisons
Prisoners in the Prison at Caernarvon number 29. 22 Male 7 Female.
The Blind, Deaf and Dumb
The number of persons returned as Blind is 97, and of these 7 suffer from some
other Infirmity also.
Deaf and Dumb persons including 19 returned simply as Dumb, number 58, and of
these 3 suffer from some other Infirmity also.
Lunatics
Lunatics number 32, and the Imbecile and Feeble-minded 185, including 2
otherwise afflicted. The total of these classes is 217.
It may be noted that, of the 217 persons returned as mentally deranged, 68 were
the inmates of institutions, including 21 in
Public and Private Lunatic Asylums, 47 in Workhouses. The remaining 149 were
residing with relatives or in unlicensed houses.
Of the 47 mentally deranged persons enumerated in Workhouses, 9 were returned as
a Lunatics and 38 as Imbecile, or Feeble-minded; and of the 149 not enumerated
in Institutions, 9 were returned as Lunatics and 140 as Imbecile or
Feeble-minded.
Source: Statistics submitted by Alan Longbottom
From Census Statistical Volume 1901
County of Carnarvon in PP 1903 Cd 1,410
Commissioners Reports
p 255 J - Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867
With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of
insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates |
| CAERNARVON |
MALE |
FEMALE |
TOTAL |
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Bangor & Beaumaris |
4 |
5 |
9 |
| Carnarvon |
1 |
2 |
3 |
| Conway |
1 |
3 |
4 |
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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