§ MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, Cleveland)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the Board regard as adequate the accommodation provided for the sick in the Eastville workhouse, belonging to the Bristol Board of Guardians; if he will state how many members of that board of guardians on a recent occasion voted for and how many against the provision of better accommodation; and whether he proposes to take any further action in this matter.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The accommodation for the sick poor of the parish of Bristol is admitted by the guardians to be inadequate and unsatisfactory, and they have for a long time past been considering various schemes
† See (4) Debates, cxxxvii., 1358.751 for providing better accommodation. That now proposed seems to have been adopted by them at a meeting held on 15th June. From a newspaper account of the proceedings I observe that an amendment which appears to have been supported by those who were not in favour of the particular scheme in question was rejected by twenty-six votes to twenty-three. The scheme has now been submitted to me, and I shall shortly address a communication to the guardians with regard to it.