take the necessary steps for carrying into effect the directions of the guardians thereon.

No. 24. To take care that the wards, rooms, larder, kitchen, and all other offices of the workhouse, and all the utensils and furniture thereof, be kept clean and in good order; and as often as any defect in the same, or in the state of the workhouse, shall occur, to report the same in writing to the guardians at their next ordinary meeting.

No. 25. To submit to the guardians, at every ordinary meeting, a report of the number of the inmates in the workhouse. No. 26. To bring before the visiting committee or the guardians any pauper inmate desirous of making a complaint or application to the guardians.

No. 27. To report forthwith to the medical officer and to the guardians, in writing, all cases in which any restraint or compulsion may have been used towards any pauper inmate of unsound mind in the workhouse.

No. 28. To keep a book, in which he shall enter all his written reports to the guardians or to the medical officer, and to lay the same before the guardians at every ordinary meeting. No. 29. To inform the visiting committee and the guardians, of the state of the workhouse in every department, and to report in writing to the guardians any negligence or other misconduct on the part of any of the subordinate officers or servants of the establishment; and generally to observe and fulfil all lawful orders and directions of the guardians, suitable to his office.

The master shall not, except in case of necessity, purchase or procure any articles for the use of the workhouse, nor order any alterations or repairs of any part of the premises, or of the furniture or other articles belonging thereto, nor pay any monies on account of the workhouse, or of the union, without the authority of the guardians, nor apply any articles belonging to the guardians, to purposes other than those authorized or approved of by such guardians.

For the general duties of the master in regard to the management of the workhouse, see Articles 88 to 151 of the General Consolidated Order, and Mr. Glen's notes upon the several articles of that order.

VI.-MATRON OF THE WORKHOUSE.

The following are the duties of this officer:

No. 1. In the absence of the master, or during his inability to act, to act as his substitute in the admission of paupers into the workhouse, and to cause every pauper upon such admission, to be examined by the medical officer.

No. 2. To cause the pauper children under the age of seven years, and the female paupers, to be searched, cleansed, and

clothed upon their admission, and to be placed in their proper wards.

No. 3. To provide for, and enforce, the employment of the ablebodied female paupers during the hours of labour, and to keep the partially disabled female paupers occupied to the extent of their ability, and to assist the schoolmistress in training up the children so as best to fit them for service.

No. 4. To call over the names of the paupers, to inspect their persons, and see that each individual is clean.

No. 5. To visit the sleeping wards of the female paupers at eleven o'clock of the forenoon of every day, and to see that such wards have been all duly cleansed and are properly ventilated.

No. 6. To visit all the wards of the females and children every night before nine o'clock, and to ascertain that all the paupers in such wards are in bed, and all fires and lights, not necessary for the sick or for women suckling their children, therein, extinguished.

No. 7. To pay particular attention to the moral conduct and orderly behaviour of the females and children, and to see that they are clean and decent in their dress and persons. No. 8. To superintend and give the necessary directions for making and mending the linen and clothing supplied to the male paupers, and all the clothing supplied to the female paupers and children, and to take care that all such clothing be properly numbered and marked on the inside with the name of the union.

No. 9. To see that every pauper in the workhouse has clean linen and stockings once a week, and that all the beds and bedding be kept in a clean and wholesome state.

No. 10. To take charge of the linen and stockings for the use of the paupers, and the other linen in use in the workhouse, and to apply the same to such purposes as shall be authorized or approved of by the guardians, and to no other.

No. 11. To superintend and give the necessary directions concerning the washing, drying, and getting up of the linen, stockings, and blankets, and to see that the same be not dried in the sleeping wards, or in the sick wards.

No. 12. To take proper care of the children and sick paupers, and to provide the proper diet for the same, and for women suckling infants, and to furnish them with such changes of clothes and linen as may be necessary.

No. 13. To assist the master in the general management and superintendence of the workhouse, and especially in

Enforcing the observance of good order, cleanliness, punctuality, industry, and decency of demeanour among the paupers;

Cleansing and ventilating the sleeping wards and the dining-hall, and all other parts of the premises;

Placing in store and taking charge of the provisions, clothing, linen, and other articles belonging to the union. No. 14. When requested by the porter, to search any female entering or leaving the workhouse under the circumstances described in p. 57,-" Porter," No. 5.

No. 15. To report to the master any negligence or other misconduct on the part of any of the female officers, or servants of the establishment, or any case in which restraint or compulsion may have been used towards any female inmate of unsound mind.

No. 16. And generally to observe and fulfil all lawful orders and directions of the guardians suitable to her office.

VII. CHAPLAIN OF THE WORKHOUSE.

No person can hold the office of chaplain of a workhouse without the consent of the bishop of the diocese to his appointment, such consent to be signified in writing.

The following are the chaplain's duties:

No. 1. To read prayers and preach a sermon to the paupers and other inmates of the workhouse on every Sunday, and on Good Friday and Christmas-day, unless the guardians, with the consent of the commissioners, may otherwise direct. No. 2. To examine the children, and to catechize such as belong to the Church of England, at least once in every month, and to make a record of the same, and state the dates of his attendance, the general progress and condition of the children, and the moral and religious state of the inmates generally, in a book to be kept for that purpose, to be laid before the guardians at their next ordinary meeting, and to be termed The Chaplain's Report."

No. 3. To visit the sick paupers, and to administer religious consolation to them in the workhouse, at such periods as the guardians may appoint, and when applied to for that purpose by the master or matron.

In "reading prayers" the chaplain is not at liberty to curtail the services of the church, but he must read the whole without change or mutilation, with the litany and commandments, as is usual on Sunday mornings.

The chaplain is not required to baptize children in the workhouse except under circumstances which would justify the administration of baptism in a private house—nor is he required to church women who may be confined in the workhouse. The children should be baptized in the parish church, and the mothers should be churched there also. The pauper inmates should be allowed to receive the

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