"It is well-nigh incredible, but we have heard it on authority which we cannot discredit, that although the so-called inquiry on which the Medical Inspector of the Poor Law Board based the unfavourable report, which gave the Strand Guardians courage to make their onslaught upon Dr. Rogers, included an examination at Dr. Markham's private house of the Edmonton officials chiefly inculpated by Dr. Rogers'[Pg 74] charges. Dr. Markham never asked Dr. Rogers one single question. ???? Volumes of comment could not add anything to the ugly emphasis of this fact."
Sir Michael Hicks Beach has been recently afflicted. I would ask him if he does not consider that his sufferings would have been intensified if his sleep had been disturbed by the noise of carpet-beating?if he had been waited on by infirm and drunken women, and broken-down potmen?if the air he breathed had been poisoned by the dust from the beating of carpets, and utterly vitiated by over-crowding? And yet, because I had protested against this hideous wrong-doing, and had done my best to get it altered, he had to get up in the House of Commons and do his best to justify the action of the Board.
The Department thought I was disposed of; it was not long before I showed them the contrary, as some of them did not subsequently hesitate to admit.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach has been recently afflicted. I would ask him if he does not consider that his sufferings would have been intensified if his sleep had been disturbed by the noise of carpet-beating?if he had been waited on by infirm and drunken women, and broken-down potmen?if the air he breathed had been poisoned by the dust from the beating of carpets, and utterly vitiated by over-crowding? And yet, because I had protested against this hideous wrong-doing, and had done my best to get it altered, he had to get up in the House of Commons and do his best to justify the action of the Board.
The Department thought I was disposed of; it was not long before I showed them the contrary, as some of them did not subsequently hesitate to admit.