§ MR. RAMSAY MACDONALDTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that in Glasgow no cases of out-work in infected premises are reported as having been found in the course of 3,072 inspections of out-workers' premises, although the cases of infectious disease throughout the city are reported as being at the rate of 24 per 1,000 of the population; and whether he has inquired if the places where home-work is done in Glasgow are really as immune from infectious disease as Column 20 in Table 6 of Cd. 3986 seems to show.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The figures in the Returns were supplied by the medical officer of health for Glasgow, a most efficient and careful official, and I have no reason for doubting their accuracy. The question, however, of the prevalence of infectious disease in this or any other class of premises is a matter of public health with which the Home Office is not directly concerned.