[440] Regulations relating to the Classification of Workhouse Inmates, in House of Commons, No. 485 of 1854.
[441] Mr. C. P. Villiers, Hansard, 4th May 1860, vol. clviii. p. 694.
[442] Dr. E. Smith, Medical Officer to Poor Law Board, in Twentieth Annual Report, 1867-8, p. 43.
[443] Circular of 15th June 1868, in Twenty-first Annual Report, 1868-9, pp. 48-9; Circular of 29th September 1870, in Twenty-third Annual Report, 1870-1, p. 9. This was the more important as Dr. Smith held that "during the night at all seasons, and during a large part of the day in cold and wet weather, the windows cannot be opened with propriety" (Report of Dr. E. Smith on Metropolitan Workhouse Infirmaries and Sick Wards, in House of Commons, No. 372 of 1866, p. 53).
[444] Circular Letter of 6th July 1868, in Twenty-first Annual Report, 1868-9, p. 55.
[445] Circular of 15th June 1868, in ibid. pp. 48-50.
[446] Ibid. p. 50.
[447] Ibid.
[448] Ibid. p. 51.
[449] Ibid. p. 49.