§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office on what dates, since the promise of improvement in ventilation given to the deputation which waited on the late Secretary of State for War and the late Financial Secretary in August last, the Pimlico Army Clothing Works have been inspected by any Home Office inspector; and what was the instrument used by the inspector who visited the works after the death of Alice Wright for ascertaining the proportion of carbon dioxide in the air.
§ * THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. BROMLEY DAVENPORT,) Cheshire, MacclesfieldThe dates of visits by a Home Office inspector to the Army Clothing Factory since the date of the deputation on various questions connected with the Royal Army
†See(4) Debates, cxxxviii., 407.518 Clothing Department, to which the right hon. Baronet presumably alludes, were 28th November, 1903; 24th March; 23rd and 24th June, 1904. I have ascertained from the Home Office that the samples of air were taken by the Inspector in bottles, six in number, on the 24th June, and were sent to Mr. W. J. A. Butterfield, consulting chemist, for analysis, who probably tested them by the Petters Koffer method.