§ MR. CADOGANasked the hon. Member for Truro, Whether, in pursuance of the Instructions stated by the Home Secretary to have been issued by the Metropolitan Board of Works for the inspection of temporary structures raised for Thanksgiving Day, any inspection had been made of the erection near Marlborough House, which had fallen, and been the scene of a serious accident?
COLONEL HOGGsaid, in reply, that it appeared from the Report of the District Surveyors that, after careful inquiry, they had not found that any structure which had been erected, or was in the course of erection, in the neighbourhood of Marlborough House up to the evening of the 26th of February had fallen; but they stated that a standing-place, set up near the porter's lodge in Marlborough House Yard, and which consisted of loose planks, had been thrown down by the crowd, and was the cause of a serious accident. He desired to add that the District Surveyors performed their difficult task in a most careful way, 1162 and, after making inquiry, he had ascertained that no accident occurred to any structure they examined.