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And must not the Guardians (or their Committee)
be that supreme power?
And The Appeal Court the Local Government Board?
[N.B. if the Guardians won't attend or won't act,
Mr. Stansfeld can appoint, can he not? -
ex officio Guardians to watch over the interests
of the rate payers.] I may add that first-rate men won't
act: unless they have the power as well as the trouble: If the power is vested in
the Medical Officer & the L. Govt. Board, the best men will not serve as Guardians.
III. It would seem,
as if the application of this to Metropolitan
Workhouse Infirmaries, were: -
1. You must trust to your Committee of Managers
2. Your Steward must be their Officer
3. Your Medical Officer must be their Officer
4. Your Matron myst be their Officer.
5. If the Committee choose to appoint a
Governor - as in the case of Liverpool - to represent them, altho' under them, let them: [but don't let the Medical Officer
be implied Governor.]
6. If they appoint the Medical Officer as
Governor, let them do it subject to approval
as to administrative fitness by Local Govt. Board
- taking care however that the attention of the