§ MR. LEES KNOWLES (Salford, W.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether it is 472 true that one of the female cleaners on the establishment of the House of Commons was taken ill on Tuesday last and died this morning of Asiatic cholera?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLERThe hon. Member has not given me notice of the question. I am aware that a fatal case of a very suspicious character has taken place this morning of one of the cleaners of this House. The question is receiving the most complete examination by the Medical Department of the Local Government Board; and, although I am sorry to say that all the indications are very suspicious, I am not prepared to say that it is a case of Asiatic cholera.