Social History...

FOREHOE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL

Meets at the Wicklewood Workhouse on alternate Mondays after the meeting of the Guardians.
Chairman: Rev John Edward Parker Bartlett, Barnham Broom Rectory, Wymondham.
Clerk: William Partridge Smith, Wymondham.
Treasurer: Henry Birkbeck, Norwich.
Medical Officer of Health: Thomas Lambert Lack, M.R.C.S.Eng. Hingham.
Highway Surveyor: H. Wade, Crownthorpe.
Sanitary Inspector: Arthur Glasspoole, Town Green, Wymondham.

FOREHOE INCORPORATION

Board day, Monday, fortnightly, at the Union House, Wicklewood at 11am.
The Union comprises the following twenty-three parishes:- Barford, Barnham Broom, Bawburgh, Bowthorpe, Brandon Parva, Carleton Forehoe, Colton, Costessey, Coston, Crownthorpe, Deopham, Easton, Hackford, Hingham, Kimberley, Marlingford, Morley St. Botolph, Morley St. Peter, Runhall, Welborne, Wicklewood, Wramplingham and Wymondham; the population of the Incorporation in 1901 was 11,329; area 38,530 acres; rateable value in 1908 £57.628

Chairman: Rev John Edward Parker Bartlett, Barnham Broom Rectory, Wymondham.
Treasurer: Henry Birkbeck, Norwich
Clerk to the Guardians and Assessment Committee: William Partridge Smith, Wymondham.
Relieving Officers and Collectors for the Guardians, Hingham District.
George W. Newberry, Barnham Broom.
Wymondham District. William H. Babbage, Town Green, Wymondham
Vaccination Officers. Arthur Glasspoole, Town Green, Wymondham.
& George W. Newberry, Barnham Broom.

Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators

1st District, John James Johnson M.R.C.S.Eng. L.R.C.P.Lond, Costessey.
2nd District. Ernest William James M.R.C.S.Eng. L.R.C.P.Lond. ,Hingham
3rd District, Burroughes Maurice Hughes, M.R.C.S.Eng. L.R.C.P.Lond. Market Place, Wymondham.
4th District, George Lowe, M.D. C.M.St.And. Market Street, Wymondham.
5th District, William Henry Griffith-Williams L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. Mattishall

Workhouse Wicklewood

– a building of brick, built in 1777 to hold 450 inmates. Alfred Wild, Master; Rev. Frank E. New M.A. chaplain. George Lowe M.D. C.M. Medical Officer; Mrs Fanny Wild, Matron.
Superintendent Registrar, William Partridge Smith, Wymondham.
Deputy, John Bartle Pomeroy, Vicar Street, Wymondham.

Registrars of Births and Deaths

Costessey sub-district, George W. Newberry, Barnham Broom.
Wymondham sub-district, Arthur Glasspoole, Town Green, Wymondham
Registrars of Marriages
Costessey sub-district, Walter Harrison, Costessey;
Deputy, John Palmer, Costessey;
Wymondham sub-district, Arthur Glasspoole, Town Green, Wymondham
Deputy, Frederick Freshfield Cann, Norwich Road, Wymondham.