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Gentlemen
I Hannah Berry Pearson born in the parish of Dorking in the county of Surrey do hereby humbley ask your protection and aid during the time that I may be an inmate of Dorking workhouse.
My age is fifty nine years I am an honest sober and respectable woman having no home or friends to assist me, and as the law demands that I should find shelter I am compeled from time to time to seek a home in Dorking Union where if I dare to utter a complaint I am in danger of having a Magistrate and a doctor brought to me to try to catch me in my words in private in order to intimidate me with a threat to send me to a lunatic asylum, (where I may be kept for years at an unnecessary expence to the country. I once again entered the probationary ward of Dorking Union Workhouse on friday last March sixteenth I remained in the said ward alone untill Wednesday March twenty first (afternoon) without being passed to the house as the medical officer had not been in attendance when he came according to what he said to me it appeared to be at his option wether he attended to my case or not
I required medicine which he promised but I have not received any
It is now March twenty third.
I am Gentlemen
Your most humble servant
Hannah Berry Pearson.
Dorking Union Workhouse
To the Poor Law Commissioners
March 23/88
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Mr I. Fu[st]
? Send copy to Gdns for observations especially with reference to her statement that she was kept in the Receiving Ward from the 16th to the 21st instant and did not see the M.O during that time.
26 Mar 88
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.—–ne are F.P.
.—–ing to Hannah [Pear]son’s complaint in 1886
H.J.Fj
27 . Mar. 1888
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See 75749/86 annexed [BJ] 3/4/88
Proceed as suggested in minute of 26 March.
E.[U].W.
3 April 88
