§ Mr. HUNTasked the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the treatment by the authorities of Newington Workhouse of Edith Plumb, aged twenty-four, whose child was only three and a-half months old, and who was charged before 747W Mr. De Grey at Lambeth with refusing to perform her allotted tasks, although so weak that she fainted twice before the magistrate; and whether, as the magistrate described it as a "monstrous case," he could see his way to relieve the person or persons responsible for this action?
§ Mr. BURNSI would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to various questions which were addressed to me on this subject on the 24th instant.
§ Mr. HILLSasked the President of the Local Government Board whether any of the London workhouses and, if so, which are in districts incorporated or regulated by any special Act or Acts of Parliament so as to be exempt from the visitation of the justices under 30 George III., c. 49; whether, since the Report of the Royal Commission on Poor Law, any of the London workhouses have been visited by any justices of the peace, or by any physician or surgeon authorised by any justice, under the powers of Section 1 of that Act; or whether the London workhouses have been left entirely under the supervision of the Local Government Board?
§ Mr. JOHN BURNSI am not aware of any local Act provisions having the effect referred to in the first part of the question, nor am I aware of any case in recent years in which the powers mentioned have been exercised.