§ 37. Mr. LOWTHasked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the reports by voluntary organisations from many mining areas of the distress prevailing there amongst babies, young children, pit boys under 16, and expectant mothers, occasioned chiefly by the system of relief on loan, he will sanction, for the remainder of the stoppage, the adoption by the relief authorities concerned of a more generous scale of relief?
§ Sir K. WOODNo, Sir. My right hon. Friend has asked his inspectors to give special attention to the occurrence of cases of hardship, and the reports which he has received do not support the view that distress among the classes mentioned is prevalent in the mining areas.