She was admitted 25th May 1927 by someone called Vassie and placed in Ward 7. Most of the folk he admitted were in this ward - both men and women. Can anyone tell me if this was a ward in the workhouse itself or in the attached Infirmary, and is there any significance to the fact that most of Vassie's admittances were in this ward??
It was a numbered ward in the workhouse itself – the North and South Infirmaries have separate registers.
The Pancras poor law union, like all the big London unions, was divided up into numbered districts, and
William Charles Vassie was the relieving officer for one of them (can’t remember which, sorry). It’s possible that admissions from a particular district initially went into particular wards (male or female).
In the remarks column are the numbers 61273. What do these refer to - they don't appear against every name in the book.
They're reference numbers for the
case-notes for those individuals (the files rarely survive, unfortunately).
She was discharged on 21 June 1927 and against this entry are the initials O.R. Am I right in thinking that means 'own request'?
Yes.
Lastly, across the next admission and discharge columns is scrawled what looks like 'see nrk'. Could anyone hazard a guess as to what this might mean?
Still puzzling over this. But it’s most likely to relate to another register or file of the Pancras union, rather than to another poor law union. She won't have been removed, as she was discharged at own request.
There are other records for St Pancras that might provide more information, but few are online for this late date, and those that are are browsable only, not searchable.
