§ MR. J. G. WEIRI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that a number of persons have been killed and many injured owing to kitchen boiler explosions during the recent frost; and whether, having regard to the fact that the Department has no power to enforce regulations with reference to kitchen boilers, he will introduce a Bill to amend the Boiler Explosions Act of 1890, by striking out from Clause 2 the words which exempt boilers used exclusively for domestic purposes from the provisions of the Act?
§ MR. J. BRYCEI have seen in the newspapers during the recent frost reports of kitchen boiler explosions unhappily attended in some cases with serious personal injury, but it is not clear how far a formal inquiry by a Government Department in each case of explosion in a private house would be of public advantage, or would meet with public approval. Whenever an accident is fatal, there is, of course, a coroner's inquest. The principal causes of these explosions are well known, and I am at present considering whether some means may not be adopted of warning householders, as winter approaches, of the means to be adopted to prevent accidents.