§ MR. WEDGWOOD (Newcastle-under-Lyme)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the National Conference on Infantile Mortality and the speech there delivered by the President of the Local Government Board, in which he attributes infantile mortality and other evils largely to the employment of married women] three months before and six months after child-birth, he will consider the possibility of dealing at an early date with this subject.
§ *MR. GLADSTONEThe question is one attended by many difficulties both as regards the enforcement of, and the possible results of, such a prohibition as suggested; I am not prepared to deal with it immediately. I am, however, fully aware of the great importance of the subject, which has already been under consideration in connection with the 1369 Report of the Physical Deterioration Committee, and it will receive my attention in connection with any amending factory legislation.