HC Deb 06 March 1911 vol 22 c815
Mr. TYSON WILSON

asked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the uniforms for the naval cadets at Dartmouth and Osborne are made to a very great extent by home-work in the district of Portsmouth; whether he is aware that there have been in that district over 200 cases of children being absent from the schools this year on account of measles; and whether, in view of the recent outbreaks of measles in the Dartmouth and Osborne naval colleges, he will have a searching inquiry made as to whether the uniforms referred to are made under proper healthy and sanitary conditions?

Mr. CHURCHILL

I have received the following information from the Factory Inspector for the district. About 85 per cent of this work is done by a single firm, which employs thirty-five out-workers. Twenty-seven of these are occupiers of workshops which are periodically visited by the factory inspectors and officers of a local authority and the sanitary conditions of which are satisfactory. Eight are outworkers in the ordinary sense; their premises, which are subject to inspection by the local authority, are frequently visited and the medical officer of health considers them to be satisfactory from the point of view of health. No cases of school children suffering from measles have been reported in connection with any of these premises.

Viscount HELMSLEY

May I ask whether the parents of the children will be called upon to notify the disease, although it does not happen to be in the schedule?