BOARDS OF GUARDIANS.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...3 SIR,—A curious position has arisen as a result of the recent election of the Board of Guardians in a large provincial town in the West of England. The wife of the " Surgeon for the Poor House" offered herself as a candidate, and was successful. Legally there was no disqualification to her
election; but it seems a curious fact that the wives of officials should be allowed to sit on a Board which controls and critieises the actions of their husbands. What is there to prevent the wives of others of the officials, say relieving officers, &e., from also seeking and securing election as Guardians ? We have heard so much lately of the necessity for reform in our Poor Law; surely such arrangements as these should not he permissible.—I am, Sir, &c.,
CHESHIRE_
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