HC Deb 17 March 1910 vol 15 cc518-9
Mr. JOWETT

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention had been called to the death of Miss Edith Derbyshire, who recently contracted anthrax at the works of Messrs. Campbell and Harrison, woolcombers, of Shipley, a branch of the woolcombers' syndicate; if he will examine the depositions of evidence given at the subsequent inquest; and whether he will say how many cases of anthrax have occurred among Messrs. Campbell and Harrison's employÉs during the last ten years, and the number of cases which have occurred at the whole of the combined firms of Woolcombers, Limited, during the same period, distinguishing between different years and fatal and non-fatal cases?

Mr. CHURCHILL

A report of this case has been received in the Department, and I have also obtained the depositions taken at the inquest from the coroner. An exhaustive examination of the existing conditions at the works has been directed. I will circulate the figures which the hon. Member asks for, and which cannot conveniently be given in an oral reply, with the Votes.