Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Medical Treatment, Class, Veterinary Science, Medical Practitioners

    Discusses an advertisement that it believes supports a distinction between the medicine practised on the rich and that on the poor. Argues that the 'assistant of the medical officer' of a poor law union doesn't need much expertise in medicine and midwifery, and is thus able, by reducing the population, to 'carry out the great object of the Poor Law'—reducing pauperism.