We have noticed the Lancet's report on the Farnham Work-
house elsewhere, but we may mention here that Mr. R. Eager, surgeon at Guildford, confirms its statement in all essential points from his own observation. He had been called in to make a post-mortem, and he declares that he "could not conceive a worse arranged building, a worse managed one, or one more thoroughly unfitted for the reception and treatment of the sick than the Farnham Infirmary." It seems that the Poor Law Board wished the inquiry into the condition of this Union to be secret, and that orders have been issued which, if they are obeyed, will lave the effect of shutting out the Lancet's agents until specially ordered admission by the guardians. In that case it will be need- ful to move in the House of Commons that the Poor Law Board be instructed to admit clergymen and medical men into the work- houses at all times,—by no means a bad check on the brutes too -often found among Union Masters.
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