Do you know that there is something more terrible than flagellation of the body – flagellation of the mind? – I have had a good deal of that from you.
The witness, proceeding, said that in the infirmary corporal punishment could only be inflicted by the schoolmaster or the master, He was the master of the infirmary. He had not kept a punishment-book. But he made reports of the punishment of paupers. The matter first arose at the Board of Guardians at the instance of the Countess de Lormet. The defendant’s paper reported the meeting.