Carmarthenshire
 

Carmarthen Workhouse
Llandeilofawr Workhouse
Llandovery Workhouse
Llanelli Workhouse

Carmarthenshire Workhouses

Poor Law Unions in Carmarthenshire
Carmarthen
Llandeilofawr
Llandovery
Llanelli
Newcastle in Emlyn

Statistics

Summary of Results.
Workhouses.
Pauper inmates of Workhouse establishments in the Registration County number 290 persons of all ages, 169 Males and 121 Females. 
These represent approximately 0.23% of the general population.
At advanced ages the proportion is far higher; at 55 years and upwards the % is .92% and at 65 years and upwards is 1.42%.

Prisons
Prisoners in the Prison at Carmarthen number 28. 26 Male 2 Female.

The Blind, Deaf and Dumb
The number of persons returned as Blind is 98, and of these 9 suffer from some other Infirmity also.

Deaf and Dumb persons including 22 returned simply as Dumb, number 88, and of these 15 suffer from some other Infirmity also.

Lunatics
Lunatics number 617, including 10 afflicted with some other Infirmity also; and the Imbecile and Feeble-minded 229, including 10 otherwise afflicted. The total of these classes is 846.
It may be noted that, of the 846 persons returned as mentally deranged, 679 were the inmates of institutions, including 631 in 
Public and Private Lunatic Asylums, 48 in Workhouses.

The remaining 167 were residing with relatives or in unlicensed houses.

Of the 48 mentally deranged persons enumerated in Workhouses, 9 were returned as a Lunatics and 39 as Imbecile, or Feeble-minded; and of the 167 not enumerated in Institutions, 4 were returned as Lunatics and 163 as Imbecile or Feeble-minded.

Source: Statistics submitted by Alan Longbottom
From Census Statistical Volume 1901
County of Carmarthen in PP 1903 Cd 1,411


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