§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has received a communication from the Board of Deputies of the Jewish Synagogues in London making various suggestions for weakening the precautions 1059 ordered by Parliament as to the immigration of destitute aliens; and if he will take care that no assent is given by inadvertence to these proposals, having regard to the numbers of our own countrymen who are at the present time without employment in the East End of London and elsewhere, and the national danger of introducing into their midst trachoma and other contagious diseases, to which such aliens are particularly subject from their ignorance and disregard of the elementary principles of the science of hygiene and sanitation.
§ *MR. GLADSTONEI have received several letters at different times from the London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews, but the hon. Member may rest assured that I shall not make any change in the administration of the Act without due care and consideration.