Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire

Abergavenny
Bedwellty
Chepstow
Monmouth
Newport
Pontypool

Poor Law Unions in Monmouthshire were Abergavenny, Bedwelty, Chepstow, Monmouth, Newport and Pontypool

Records held at Gwent County Record Office, County Hall, CWMBRAN, Gwent. NP44 2XH

Telephone:- U.K. 01633 644886
Overseas +44 1633 832214

Newport Reference Library, Newport Central Library, John Frost Square, Newport, South Wales. NP9 1PA

Telephone:- U.K. 01633 211376
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Statistics

Summary of Results.
Workhouses.
Pauper inmates of Workhouse establishments in the Registration County number 1,379 persons of all ages, 892 Males and 487 Females.
These represent approximately 0.44% of the general population.
At advanced ages the proportion is far higher; at 55 years and upwards the % is 2.61% and at 65 years and upwards is 4.15%.

Prisons
Prisoners in the Local and Convict Prisons in the registration County number 85. 75 Males and 10 Females.

The Blind, Deaf and Dumb
The number of persons returned as Blind is 238, and of these 8 suffer from some other Infirmity also.

Deaf and Dumb persons including 18 returned simply as Dumb, number 105, and of these 14 suffer from some other Infirmity also.

Lunatics
Lunatics number 922, including 7 afflicted with some other Infirmity also; and the Imbecile and Feeble-minded 459, including 11 otherwise afflicted. The total of these classes is 1,381.
It may be noted that, of the 1,381 persons returned as mentally deranged, 1,186 were the inmates of institutions, including 1,064 in Public Lunatic Asylums, 122 in Workhouses. The remaining 195 were residing with relatives or in unlicensed houses.

Of the 122 mentally deranged persons enumerated in Workhouses, all were returned Imbecile, or Feeble-minded; and of the 195 not enumerated in Institutions, 1 was returned as a Lunatic and 194 as Imbecile or Feeble-minded.

Source: submitted by Alan Longbottom
From Census Statistical Volume 1901
County of Monmouth in PP 1902 Cd 1,361

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
Source: Submitted by Alan Longbottom

	Male	Female	Total
Monmouth	4	14	18
Abergavenny	10	10	20
Chepstow	7	8	15
Newport	-	5	5

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