[798] Local Government Chronicle, 7th November 1903, p. 1091.

[799] Local Government Board to Hexham Union, April 1902; Local Government Chronicle, 19th April 1902, p. 413; Decisions of the Local Government Board, 1902-3, by W. A. Casson, 1904, pp. 14, 23.

[800] Local Government Chronicle, 13th June 1903, p. 577; Decisions of the Local Government Board, 1902-3, by W. A. Casson, 1904, p. 162.

[801] Memorandum of June 1895, in Twenty-fifth Annual Report, 1895-6, p. 121.

[802] Circular of 29th January 1895, in ibid. p. 108.

[803] Memorandum of June 1895, in ibid. p. 122.

[804] Circular of 29th January 1895, in ibid. p. 111.

[805] It had been ordered already in 1886 that, as regards the bath, every person "should have the right to demand water which has not been previously used" (Minute of Instructions, Bathing of Workhouse Inmates, 2nd February 1886, in Sixteenth Annual Report, 1886-7, p. 1).

[806] Memorandum of June 1895, in Twenty-fifth Annual Report, 1895-6, p. 122.

[807] Ibid. p. 121.