| Description | The General Purposes Committee is first referred to in the Guardians' minute book for 1871-2 (see GP AS/2/1/17), when 7 members of the Board were appointed to it. As its name suggests, the committee dealt with a wide range of topics, usually those that affected the wider Union rather than an individual workhouse. These included discussing the internal fixtures and fittings of the Union's offices and buildings, and the appointment of paid officials, and occasionally details regarding individual inmates. The volumes are indexed. |