SIR WALTER POSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is prepared to give an answer to the petition, forwarded to him in February, from the indoor staff of the Grimsby post office, asking that a Home Office inspector might inspect and report upon the sanitary conditions of the office.
(Answer.) The Postmaster General has received reports upon the head telegraph office at Grimsby, which is presumably the office referred to. These do not lead to the conclusion that the conditions of the building are insanitary; but he has called for a further report from the local medical officer of the post office; and when that has been received he will decide what further measures, if any, are necessary. There is no reason to suppose that the requirements of the Factory Acts, if they were applicable to such a building, are not fulfilled—(Post. Office.)