The Archbishop of York headed a deputation to the Earl
of Devon, President of the Poor Law Board, on the subject of Work- house Infirmaries, this day week, and explained with great force the horrors of the country workhouse infirmaries, the necessity of applying proper hospital regulations to them as we have already done to the London infirmaries, and the necessity also of providing dispensaries at which the proper medicines should be dispensed, without throwing any charge on the medical men of the work- houses. The Earl of Devon made a very ambiguous reply, promising improvements in ventilation and in general humanity, but not coming to the point of any of the issues raised so ably by the Archbishop and other members of the deputation. We fear there is a very bitter hatred of reform,—a real preference for the " nasty" treatment of pauper invalids,—lurking somewhere at the very heart of the Poor Law Board itself.
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