Workhouses (Metropolis). Return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 24 July 1866;--for, return "showing, as respects the Metropolitan district, the date of every inspection by the Poor Law Inspector of the Metropolitan district, or other inspectors who temporarily supplied his place, of each workhouse and workhouse infirmary, from the 1st day of April 1856 to the 31st day of March 1866:" "copies of the entry made by the inspectors in the visitors' or other book after each inspection:" "of any report made by the inspectors to the Poor Law Board after their inspection on the state of the workhouse or workhouse infirmary:" "of all communications addressed during the above period by the Poor Law Board to the Metropolitan Board of Guardians, calling their attention to the reported defects in the workhouse accommodation or management:" "of all letters addressed by boards of guardians to the Poor Law Board in reference to their communications on the above subject:" "of the reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Poor Law Board for the above period on the state of the imbecile wards in the Metropolitan workhouses, and of the correspondence which has taken place thereon:" "and, of a series of reports on the Metropolitan workhouses made by Mr. Cane, prior to the appointment of the present Metropolitan Inspector." [electronic resource].