Newton Abbot: Board of Guardians: Wednesday: The Rev. R. R. Wolfe presided: The report of the Visiting Committee, read by the Rev. F. J. Taylor, showed the house to be in good order and the number of inmates 282. There were satisfactory returns from all the medical officers. A letter from the Poor Law Board was read stating that although Mr. Brown, the medical officer from St. Mary Church district complied with the regulations of the Board by residing within the district, still they considered his residing at Kingskerswell instead of St. Mary Church must be very inconvenient to the populous residence of the latter, especially as he was not enabled to secure a deputy at St. Mary Church … … A letter from Mr. Pinsent, Kingsteington, was read stating that he should oppose any payment out of the poor rates of the costs incurred by the late action in the Court of Chancery, in which he was plaintiff and the sewer authority defendants. The Board considered they had nothing to do in the matter; it rested entirely with the ratepayers of Kingsteington.
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872