§ MR. WARDLE (Stockport)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if his attention has been called to the action of the medical officer of health at Kirkby Stephen, who during July or August of this year sentenced a refractory pauper to one month's imprisonment, in his capacity as a county magistrate; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter in view of the dual position held by this medical officer of health.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSI have no information as to this particular case, but I may say generally that, as a Medical Officer of Health is an officer of the county or district council and not of the board of guardians, it does not at present appear to me that there is any objection to his acting as a county magistrate in a case of the kind referred to in the Question.