§ MR.WOOTTON ISAACSON (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Samuel Ely Hobbs, a dock labourer, lately residing at Love Lane, Ratcliff, who died at the Bromley and Stepney Sick Asylum of inflammation of the lungs, accelerated by destitution and privation; whether he is aware that there is only one doctor to the Union, which contains the parishes of Limehouse, Stepney, and Ratcliffe, and that the wife of the deceased was two days before she could obtain the medicine prescribed by the parish doctor; and whether immediate steps will be taken to remedy the present system?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Sir W. FOSTER,) Derby, IlkestonMy attention has been called to the Report of the inquest in the case referred to. The Local Government Board have applied to the Coroner for a copy of the depositions, and they are at present in communication with the Guardians of the Stepney Union with regard to the case.