§ MR. MACDONA (Southwark, Rotherhithe)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the Senate of Hamburg has issued an Order to prevent the importation into Hamburg, and prohibited transit over territory under its control, of rags and bedding imported from Russia, actuated by the experience of what the people of Hamburg suffered in 1892; and whether he will consider the advisability of adopting a similar course in this country?
§ *MR. H. H. FOWLERThe only information I have as to the Order referred to is contained in a telegram from Berlin to the effect that the Senate of Hamburg has issued Orders
Prohibiting the importation into or transport through Hamburg of old clothes and dirty body and bed linen from Russia. Passengers' luggage is excepted.The Order of the Local Government Board of August 5 deals with articles of a similar character. The Order prohibits the landing in England of "dirty bedding or disused or filthy clothing, whether belonging to emigrants or otherwise," except under certain specified conditions as to disinfection.
§ MR. MACDONAIs not the importation of rags prohibited in New York unless they are first disinfected?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERI have no information upon that point. There are rags called rags of merchandise in bales which have been collected during a long series of years, and the importation of such rags is not prohibited in any country.