Deficiency Hospital under the Regional Hospital Board, was established by the benefaction of Mr William Dixon, of Holton le Moor, in 1800, and its burial ground was consecrated in 1815. Overseers of the poor were regularly appointed by the parish vestry in accordance with the act of 59 George III, and the record of their activities makes very interesting reading. In 1828 it was agreed that no relief should be given to any pauper who kept a dog. In 1830 it was "'agreed that Mr Dixon gives Notice to Cabourn Parish than an action is intended against them for a conspiracy against Caistor Parish in the Matter of John Langton," evidently a poor man with whom neither parish wished to be charged.
On May 2nd, 1833, a disgraceful scene occurred in Caistor Church. Thomas Clark, who had been chief musician and teacher of psalmody, had died at the age of 67 and at his funeral the choir, his former pupils, desired to sing four verses of the 23rd psalm, but before they could conclude the first verse, the clergyman, Benjamin Franklin Couch, ordered the bearers to carry the corpse to the grave, and, upon their neglecting to do so, "threw off his surplice, exclaiming they might bury the corpse themselves." Perhaps the discarded garment was the "new surplus" which had been voted to Mr Couch by the vestry in 1831 !
In 1838 it was resolved at a vestry meeting that the parish constables should aid the churchwardens in the suppression of drinking and vice on Sundays, and all other profanation of the Sabbath and in 1851 Mr Joseph Johnson was allowed 2s. a week for keeping order in the streets on Sundays and on Saturday nights.
Pinders were appointed annually to keep the parish pound which used to be in the close where the Church School now stands, but these officers are not mentioned after 1866.
In 1840 the town pump was put in order and in the following year the stocks were repaired and fixed. In 1842 it was found necessary to employ the Hull police to keep order at the Spring Fair,---this cost the parish £11 4s. 0d.
There are many references in the vestry minutes to the Fire Engine which seems to have been a constant source of expense. Every time the engine was called away from Caistor those who summoned it had to pay a fee of £3, with an