§ MR. HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the recent death of Lilian Mabel Filer, aged nine years, in the charity barrack school, known as Muller's Orphanage, at Bristol, who had died in that institution from cardiac failure without the attendance of a doctor; whether he can state the number of children in that asylum, and the death rate for the last ten years; and, having regard to the number of children living together without a properly qualified doctor on the premises, can he state what steps he proposes to take to induce the authorities to take better care of the children committed to the care of the orphanage.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. WALTER LONG,) Bristol, S.I have seen a newspaper report of the inquest in the case referred to in the question. I have no information as to the number of children in the orphanage or as to the death rate there. The institution is in no way under my control, and I have no authority to interfere with regard to it.