“FLOGGING SICK LADS IN AN INFIRMARY.
“BURNS AND A BULLY.
Mr. John Burns apparently approves of the flogging of sick lads in a Poor Law infirmary. This, at any rate, is the corollary of his reply to Mr. O’Grady, who called his attention to the action of Dr. Keats, of the Camberwell Infirmary, and to which we have already referred. The position is that Dr. Keats, a paid servant of the Camberwell ratepayers, flogs sick children with the ‘cat-o’-five-tails’ and his conduct is condoned, it not approved, by the Camberwell Guardians. The matter is then reported to the Local Government Board; whereupon Mr. Burns declares that it is too trivial for public inquiry, and that he does not propose to take any action the matter. It now remains for the ratepayers of Camberwell to take up the cudgels themselves. It is ‘up to them’ to demand a public inquiry and to see that they get it. If they have an ounce of spirit they will get to work without delay.”