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Charles Short: adverse report on workhouse at Milton.

4 April 1812

From: 1812 To: 1812

House is "by no means fit for a human being", being damp and filthy. Beds, wearing apparel and food are all of the most miserable kind. Inhabitants are: Elizabeth Geary aged 72 allowed 3s 6d per week Elizabeth Benyon, a cripple allowed 3s 6d per week Ann White, a young woman who lives there but maintains herself Robert Peat aged 80, allowed 4s per week John Farrow, his wife and 3 children, no allowance Sarah Lilley, a widow with 4 children, including a twenty-year-old daughter with epilepsy, allowed 5s per week.

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Short, Charles,
Geary, Elizabeth,
Benyon, Elizabeth,
White, Ann,
Peat, Robert,
Farrow, John,
Lilley, Sarah

MILTON ERNEST, Poor Laws, workhouses, epilepsy