§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)My hon. Friend the Member for Whitechapel (Mr. Montagu) has given notice of the following question: To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention 528 has been called to the following facts: Mrs. Toop, an inmate of the Whitechapel Infirmary, died there on Tuesday last, and her friends forthwith made arrangements for the funeral; but when the undertaker called at the Infirmary a body, which was not that of Mrs. Toop, was offered to him; and the friends of the latter, in spite of repeated applications, have not been able to obtain delivery of her body, which, it is.-understood, has been buried by mistake; and whether he will point out to the Guardians of the Whitechapel Union that it is their duty to recover the body of Mrs, Toop, and hand it over to her friends? My hon. Friend desires me on his behalf to postpone the question until Thursday; but, in the meantime, I hope, in view of the-urgency of the case, that the right hon. Gentleman will lose no time in inquiring into it.
§ * MR. RITCHIEI sent a special messenger this morning to the Whitechapel Board of Guardians, but as yet have-received no reply.
MR. PIOKERSGILLMay I ask the Home Secretary whether any application has been made to him for authority to exhume the body of Mrs. Toop?
§ MR. MATTHEWSNo such application has come under my personal notice.