| Description | Admission and discharge register. Gives the current admission number, the previous admission number, date of admission, name, age, religion, by whom sent (this column is later used to record marital status), avocation [occupation], cause of admission, parish chargeable, date of death or discharge, number of days in house, and general remarks. In late October 1902, a list of of those currently in the poorhouse (some of them from the 1870s and 1880s) is engrossed in the register. |