Mitford and Launditch Union
A return of all female paupers of the age of 16 years and upwards in the workhouse on the sixth day of April 1861, classified according to character.
| 1. | Total |
| 2. Single women pregnant with their first child 1 | 1 |
| 3. Single women who have had one bastard child 5 | 5 |
| 4. Single women who had had one bastard child and are pregnant again 4 | 4 |
| 5. Single women who have had two bastard children 5 | 5 |
| 6. Single women who have had three bastard children 3 | 3 |
| 7. Single women who have had four or more bastard children 3 | 3 |
| 8. Idiotic or weak-minded single women with one or more bastard children – | – |
| 9. Women whose out-relief has been taken off on account of misconduct – | – |
| 10. Women incapable of getting their own living from syphillis – | – |
| 11. Prostitutes – | – |
| 12. Girls who have been out at service, but do not keep their places on account of misconduct 1 | 1 |
| 13. Girls brought up in the workhouse and who have been out at service, but have returned on account of misconduct 3 | 3 |
| 14. Widows who have had one of more bastard children during their widowhood 4 | 4 |
| 15. Married women with husbands in the workhouse 4 | 4 |
| 16. Married women with husbands transported or in gaol – | – |
| 17. Married women deserted by their husbands 3 | 3 |
| 18. Imbecile, idiotic, or weak-minded women and girls 7 | 7 |
| 19. Respectable women and girls incapable of getting their living on account of illness or other bodily defect of infirmity 7 | 7 |
| 20. Respectable able-bodied women and girls 6 | 6 |
| 21. Respectable aged women 7 | 7 |
| 63 |
I certify the above return as correct
R. W. Scraggs
Master of the Workhouse