§ MR. TALBOTI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he will consider the desirability of appointing a lady Inspector to visit the pauper district schools, in which a great number of girls and children of tender age are being educated, in order to ensure that their best interests may be attended to?
§ MR. SHAW-LEFEVREI fully appreciate the advantages which may be 32 obtained from the services of ladies in connection with Poor Law schools. I am glad to say that with one exception all the district schools in London have one or more ladies acting as managers. In the case of four out of the six school districts the Local Government Board have exercised their power of nominating by appointing ladies as managers. In the case also of 18 of the Metropolitan Unions lady Guardians have been elected, and the Local Government Board have encouraged the appointment of ladies' committees. I cannot, however, give any undertaking as to the appointment of a lady Inspector.