§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether his attention has been called to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Arsenical Poisoning, paragraph 166, in which they recommend the appointment of a special officer with suitable scientific knowledge, and adequate laboratory assistance, to make authoritative investigation where new risks to health are suspected, and also to advise how work under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act may be run on satisfactory lines; and whether, in view of the increase in lunacy and crime, attributed by the medical profession and medical officers of health to the unrestricted sale of patent spirit as whisky, he will act on the recommendation of the said Commission by the appointment of a suitable officer.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURMy right hon. friend the President of the Local Government Board informs me that the recommendations of the Royal Commission are now engaging his careful attention.