HC Deb 09 May 1881 vol 261 cc28-9
MR. C. S. PARKER

asked the Postmaster General, Whether, as has been stated, it is intended to employ a certain number of deaf and dumb persons at the Post Office in the sorting of papers?

MR. FAWCETT

Sir, I am glad to be able to state that arrangements have been made for the employment, experimentally, of a certain number of deaf and dumb persons in the sorting of papers in the Post Office Savings Bank Department, and I can only express a hope that the experiment will turn out successfully.