EVIDENCE OF DR. KEATS.
Dr. Keats said he had been medical superintendent
of the Camberwell Infirmary for 15 1/2 years. He had a staff of 200 officers, of whom 130 were nurses and five were medical men. He was the head of the administration. There was special accommodation for sick children. He had had to punish boys for serious breaches of discipline on ten occasions only before February, 1913. The punishment had been administered with a strand of five strings or with the indiarubber of his stethoscope. Then in 1913 there were four boys who were getting rather refractory.