Note 304 — Chapter III
Reading edition
Mr. Sotheron Estcourt (President of Poor Law Board), 15th July 1858, Hansard, vol. 151, p. 1500. "The nightly occupants of the vagrant ward interfere with the regular inmates, harass the officers, and at some seasons and in some workhouses render it impossible to preserve the order or to carry out the ordinary regulations of the establishment" (Circular of 30th November 1857, in Eleventh Annual Report, 1858, p. 29).