Honiton
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| Honiton Poor Law Union and Workhouse Comprises 28 parishes. Their total average annual expenditure during the 3
years preceding the formation of the Union, was £10,244; but for the year
ending Lady Day 1849, it was £12,977.5s.10d, including salaries, county rates
etc. The Union Workhouse, built in 1836, at the cost of £5022, is a stone
building, with room for about 230 inmates. 10 surgeons are employed by the
Union, & the Rev H K Venn is the chaplain. H V Mules Esq is the union clerk;
John & Mrs Coren are master & matron of the Workhouse; & William
Gayler & Francis George Edwards are the relieving officers. Devon
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