§ MR. J. RAMSAY MACDONALD (Leicester)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many complaints as to dirty or otherwise insanitary workshops and factories have been sent by the Factory Department to 1650 the metropolitan borough councils during the twelve months ending 28thFebruary last; also the number of prosecutions instituted and cases brought before the court by officers of the metropolitan borough councils for overcrowding or insanitation in such factories or workshops.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe number of notices sent by the men inspectors to the metropolitan borough councils during the period named in the Question with regard to insanitary conditions in factories and workshops was 488. I have not been able at such short notice to obtain the number of those sent by the women inspectors, but the number in 1906 was 298. I have not the number of prosecutions instituted by the borough councils in respect of insanitary conditions: during the period in question, but the figure for 1905, as given by the returns of the medical officers of health, was nineteen.