§ MR. JAMES (Gateshead)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether any information has been received as to the number of deaths of recent years in the United States from electric currents from wires overhead or otherwise in the United States; and whether there would be any objection to lay this information before Parliament?
§ *THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Sir M. HICKS BEACH,) Bristol, W.No, Sir; the Board of Trade have received no official information as to the number of deaths from electric currents in the United States. I am, however, endeavouring to obtain information, and shall be happy to lay upon the Table of the House any that I receive.