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 Chorlton Union 

Annual Return of Pauper Lunatics 

"A True list of all Lunatics chargeable on the 1st January, 1905, to the Chorlton Union, or to such part thereof respectively as is situate within the administrative County of Lancashire or the County Borough of Manchester, specifying the name, sex, and age where detained or residing".

1905

Original Report

**Dated 1905. Small folio. 10 leafs. A list of Lunatics residing in the county of Lancaster, with a list of various Asylums and the names of the patients, covers Lancashire, Manchester. Original metal tack to the upper right corner. Measuring: 33.2cm x 21cm. Please see photographs, original piece of ephemera from the turn of the last century regarding lunatic asylums. 

Chorlton Poor Law Union was founded in January 1837 in response to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, also known as the New Poor Law


The union's first workhouse, the Stretford Road Workhouse, offered accommodation for 300 inmates, with segregated living areas for various categories of paupers, such as children, lunatics, the elderly, and the sick; female inmates were housed in the west of the building and males in the east, separated by a central communal dining hall and chapel



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