Poor Relief Indexes

• Beaminster Union
• Blandford Union
• Bridport Union

Official reports and inquiries

• An inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population (1842)
• Reports of special assistant poor law commissioners on the employment of women and children in agriculture (1843)
• Select Committee on Medical Poor Relief (1844)

Material on small pox and vaccinations

• Newspaper reports of prosecutions under the Vaccination Acts
• Newspaper reports of deaths following small pox inoculations
• Small pox death notices

Miscellaneous material

• Notes from The Workhouse System, 1834-1929, by M. A. Crowther (1983)
• Condition of the peasantry in Dorsetshire (The Times, 1846)
• Medical care of the poor, Beaminster, 1830s