§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can state at what factory the case of phosphorus poisoning chronicled in the Labour Gazette as occurring in March, was found, and whether the case is an old one or is a new outbreak of necrosis; and what steps he proposes to take.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) This case occurred at the factory of Messrs. Moreland and Sons, Gloucester. The person attacked was a man who had been employed some six or seven years at a mechanical dipping machine in a well-ventilated room. The attack was the first attack and mild in character. The investigations made show
| Date of Notice. | Name of School. | Proposed accommodation. | Notice given by— |
| 14th November, 1904 | Chelsea, Hortensia Road, Council | 300 | London County Council |
| 14th November, 1904 | Paddington, Westbourne Green, Council | 800 | London County Council. |
| 14th November, 1904 | Islington, New North Road, Council | 900 | London County Council |
| 14th November, 1904 | Lambeth, Coldharbour Lane, Council | 300 | London County Council |
| 14th November, 1904 | St. Pancras, Dartmouth Park, Council | 800 | London County Council |
| 8th March, 1905 | Stepney, White chapel, Burton Street, Council | 800 | London County Council |
| 3rd March, 1905 | Kensington, St. Charles Square, Roman Catholic | 200 | Madame O'Flaherty and others. |
§ that the man had been in the habit of chewing tobacco while at work, and had recently received a blow on the jaw which had caused a tooth to come out. The man is now employed by the firm elsewhere. Stringent special rules are in force in this factory. I shall take care that those rules are not transgressed, but in the circumstances of this particular case I do not think that any action on my part is called for.