| Description | The surviving volume for King's Norton is the Daily Provisions Consumption Account for Selly Oak workhouse. Kept in response to a Local Government Board Order of January 1867, it details the amounts of food required daily to prepare the meals, with the figures entered onto pre-printed forms. The amounts are given for the different classes of inmates, presumably distinguishing between men, women, children, the elderly and the sick, and altering their diet accordingly. Those either too ill to eat, or absent from the workhouse, are also noted, and the total quantity of food needed for each meal is finally calculated and entered. |