§ MR. C. E. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Government propose to take any action to carry out the Report of the Select Committee on Midwives' Registration (of 1893), which was of opinion that a large amount of suffering and death was needlessly inflicted on both women and children of the so-called working classes through the want of medical training amongst those practising as midwives?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire,1271 Blackpool The Lord President of the Council informs me that the Association for promoting the compulsory registration of midwives intend to promote a Bill with this object during the present Session, and he has under consideration the question of receiving a deputation from the Association with regard to it.