Colonel THORNEasked the President of the Local Government Board whether, in view of the decision of His Majesty's Government that the boards of guardians should be abolished and the Poor Laws repealed on the transfer of the care of the various classes of paupers to the county and municipal authorities under the Public Health and other Acts, he will consider whether it is necessary to go to the expense and trouble of holding the elections for guardians of the poor in urban districts in May next; and whether he will include a Clause in the Ministry of Health Bill providing that no more such elections shall be held?
§ Dr. ADDISONI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given on the 13th February to my hon. Friend the Member for Central Southwark, to which I have nothing to add.