§ 37. Mr. MILLSasked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to complaints about the conditions under which men and women passing through villages in search of work are compelled to sleep in what are known as casual wards; and whether he will cause inspection to be made without warning workhouse masters, especially in the rural areas of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Kent?
§ The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Wheatley)Complaints of this kind are from time to time received and investigated. The casual wards are regularly inspected by my officers, and the inspections are ordinarily made without previous notice to the workhouse masters.