Q. 7. Is regular attendance given by the medical officer ?— Are the inmates of the sick wards properly tended ?-Are the nurses efficient?-Is there any infectious disease in the workhouse ?

Q. 8. Is there any dangerous lunatic or idiot in the workhouse?

Q. 9. Is divine service regularly performed ?-Are prayers regularly read?

Q. 10. Is the established dietary duly observed ?—And are the prescribed hours of meals regularly adhered to?

Q. 11. Are the provisions and other supplies of the qualities contracted for?

Q. 12. Is the classification properly observed, according to Arts. 98 and 99 ?

Q. 13. Is any complaint made by any pauper against any officer, or in respect of the provisions or accommodations ?-if so, state the name of the complainant, and the subject of the complaint.

Q. 14. Does the present number of inmates in the workhouse exceed that fixed by the poor law commissioners ?

And by stat. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 109, s. 24, in all cases where boards of guardians neglect to appoint a visiting committee for the purpose of visiting the workhouse of the union, or when three months shall have elapsed during which such committee shall have neglected to visit such workhouse, the poor law commissioners shall be required to appoint a visitor, not being one of the guardians, at a salary to be fixed by them, to be paid out of the general fund of the union: provided always, that the appointment of any such paid visitor shall cease at the expiration of three calendar months next after the appointment of any visiting committee, by the guardians, subject nevertheless to his re-appointment in case of any repetition of such neglect of the guardians or visiting committee as aforesaid.

SECTION II.

Relief by Guardians in a Workhouse.

By stat. 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 76 (the poor law amendment Act), 8. 38, in all unions within that Act, a board of guardians of the poor for such union shall be constituted and chosen, "and the workhouse or workhouses of such union shall be governed, and the relief of the poor in such union shall be administered, by such board of guardians." (a)

(a) 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 76, s. 38.

And by sect. 39, if the commissioners shall order that the laws for the relief of the poor of any single parish shall be administered by a board of guardians, such board, when elected, shall be anthorized and entitled to act for such single parish, in like manner in all respects as a board of guardians for united parishes. (b).

Rules for their Management of the Workhouse.

As to the admission of pau-
pers, 309.

As to the admission of non-
settled poor, 311.
Strayed children, or insane
persons, 312.

As to the classification of the
paupers, 312.

As to the discipline and diet of the paupers, 314. Employment in workhouses, 318.

Religious service in work-
houses, 318.

Lunatics in workhouses, 319.
Bringing ardent spirits, &c.,

into workhouses, 319.
The like, or other misbeha
viour, by officers of work-
houses, 320.

Misbehaviour of paupers, 321.

Certain punishments, not to be inflicted, 327.

By stat. 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 76, s. 15, the poor law commissioners shall, and they are authorized and required, from time to time as they shall see occasion, to make and issue all such rules, orders, and regulations for the management of the poor, for the government of workhouses, and the education of the children therein, as they shall think proper; and the said commissioners may, at their discretion, from time to time suspend, alter, or rescind such rules, orders, and regulations, or any of them.

Also, by sect. 42, the commissioners may, and they are thereby authorized, by writing under their hands and seal, to make rules, orders, and regulations, to be observed and enforced at every workhouse already established by virtue of stat. 22 G. 3, c. 83, or any general or local Act of parliament, or hereafter to be established by virtue of such Acts, or any of them, or of this or any other Act of parliament relating to the relief of the poor, for the government thereof, and the nature and amount of the relief to be given to, and the labour to be exacted from, the persons relieved, and the preservation therein of good order, and from time to time to suspend, alter, vary, amend, or rescind the same, and make any new or other rules, orders and regulations, to be observed and enforced as aforesaid, as they from time to time shall think fit, and to alter, at their discretion, any of the rules, orders, and regulations contained

(b) 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 76, s. 39.

in the schedule to the said Act, and also to alter or rescind any rules, orders, and regulations heretofore made in pursuance of the said Act, or any local act of parliament relating to workhouses or the relief of the poor: and that all rules, orders, and regulations to be from time to time made by the said commissioners under the authority of this Act, shall be valid and binding, and shall be obeyed and observed, as if the same were specially made by and embodied in this Act; subject nevertheless to the said power of the said commissioners from time to time to rescind, amend, suspend, or alter the same.

The poor law commissioners have accordingly framed the following rules to be observed in the workhouses of unions, and of parishes which are under guardians (c).

As to the admission of paupers.] Art. 88. Every pauper who shall be admitted into the workhouse, either upon his first or any subsequent admission, shall be admitted in some one of the following modes only; that is to say:-

By a written or printed order of the board of guardians, signed by their clerk according to Art. 42.

By a provisional written or printed order, signed by a relieving officer or an overseer.

By the master of the workhouse (or during his absence, or inability to act, by the matron), without any order, in any case of sudden or urgent necessity.

Provided that the master may admit any pauper delivered at the workhouse under an order of removal to a parish in the union.

Art. 89. No pauper shall be admitted under any written or printed order, as mentioned in Art. 88, if the same bear date more than six days before the pauper presents it at the workhouse.

Art. 90. If a pauper be admitted otherwise than by an order of the board of guardians, the admission of such pauper shall be brought before the board of guardians at their next ordinary meeting, who shall decide on the propriety of the pauper's continuing in the workhouse or otherwise, and make an order accordingly.

Art. 91. As soon as the pauper is admitted, he shall be placed in some room to be appropriated to the reception of paupers on admission, and shall then be examined by the medical officer.

Art. 92. If the medical officer upon such examination pronounce the pauper to be labouring under any disease of body or mind, the pauper shall be placed in the sick ward, or in such other ward as the medical officer shall direct.

(e) Ord. 24th July, 1847.

Art. 93. If the medical officer pronounce the pauper to be free from any such disease, the pauper shall be placed in the part of the workhouse assigned to the class to which he may belong.

Art. 94. No pauper shall be detained in a receiving ward for a longer time than is necessary for carrying into effect the regulations in Arts. 91, 92, and 93, if there be room in the proper ward for his reception.

Art. 95. Before being removed from the receiving ward, the pauper shall be thoroughly cleansed, and shall be clothed in a workhouse dress, and the clothes which he wore at the time of his admission shall be purified, and deposited in a place appropriated for that purpose, with the pauper's name affixed thereto. Such clothes shall be restored to the pauper when he leaves the workhouse.

Art. 96. Every pauper shall, upon his admission into the workhouse, be searched by or under the inspection of the proper officer, and all articles prohibited by any Act of parliament, or by this order, which may be found upon his person, shall be taken from him, and, so far as may be proper, restored to him at his departure from the workhouse.

Art. 97. Provided always, that the regulations respecting the admission, clothing, and searching of paupers shall not apply to any casual poor wayfarer, unless the guardians shall so direct, or unless he is compelled to remain in the workhouse from illness or other sufficient cause, in which case he shall be admitted regularly as an inmate.

And by stat. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 110, s. 10, upon application for relief by admission to the workhouse of any such union as aforesaid or otherwise, by any poor person professing to be a destitute wanderer or wayfarer, the master, porter, or other officer of such workhouse, or the relieving officer of such union, or overseer of any parish, to whom such application for relief shall be made, may search such person, or cause him to be searched, and may take from such person any money which shall be found upon him, and shall deliver the same to the guardians, to be by them applied in aid of the common fund of the union; and every person who shall apply for relief at any workhouse, or to any relieving officer or overseer, having at the time of such application in his possession and under his immediate control any money or other property, of which, on inquiry made by the guardians or their officers, or by overseers, he shall not make correct and complete disclosure, shall be taken to be an idle and disorderly person within the meaning of stat. 5 G. 4, c. 83, for the punishment of idle and disorderly persons and rogues and vagabonds in England, and shall be punishable and dealt with in all respects and with the like proceedings as idle and disorderly persons under the said Act.

As to the admission of non-settled poor.] By stat. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 103, s. 14, where the workhouse of any union or parish shall be governed and regulated by rules, orders, or regulations of the poor law commissioners or of the poor law board, the guardians of the union or parish to which such workhouse belongs, in case of the overcrowding of the workhouse of any other union or parish, or the prevalence or reasonable apprehension of any epidemic or contagious disease, or in and towards carrying out any legal resolution for the emigration of poor persons, may, with the consent of the poor law board, receive, lodge, and maintain in the first-mentioned workhouse, upon such terms as shall be mutually agreed upon by the respective boards of guardians, any poor person belonging to such other parish or union; and such poor per son so received into such first-mentioned workhouse shall, while therein, be treated in all respects in like manner, and be subject to the same regulations and liabilities, as the other poor persons therein, and shall be deemed to be chargeable in the first instance to the common fund of the union or to the parish in the workhouse whereof such poor persons shall be received: provided always, that the abiding of any such poor person in such workhouse shall in all other respects be attended with the same legal consequences as if such workhouse had been situated within the union or parish from which such poor person shall have been sent.

And by stat. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 105, s. 6, where in any union or parish there shall be a workhouse or building having adequate provision for the reception, maintenance, and education of poor children, and there shall be more accommodation therein at any time than the guardians of such union or parish shall require for the poor children of their own union or parish, such guardians may, with the consent of the poor law board, contract with the guardians of any other union or parish, any part of which is not more than twenty miles from such workhouse or other building, for the reception, maintenance, and instruction therein of any poor children under the age of sixteen years chargeable to such other union or parish, or to any parish in such other union, being orphans, or deserted by their parents, or whose parents or surviving parent shall consent; and such last-mentioned children while at such workhouse or other building shall be maintained and instructed in the same manner in all respects as the children of the union or parish to which such workhouse or other building shall belong, and shall be subject to the control and management of the guardians of such union or parish, or their officers, in like manner as if such children were charge. able to such union or parish: provided always, that the abiding of any such child in any such workhouse or building shall