§ 9. Mr. PURCELLasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Mr. John Forshaw, 4, Peacock Street, Salford, who, after his house was raided by the police on 552 the OFFICIAL REPORT a list showing the number of vessels actually under con struction during the years indicated.
§ The list is as follows:
§ 14th May, was taken to the Salford Town Hail police station whether he is aware that he informed the officers that he was suffering from diabetes and asked to see a doctor that this request was refused, as was also a request for the supply of blankets and that the windows might be closed, the only protection he had during the night being the coat of a man in the same cell who pot his coat over Mr. Forshaw who was obviously ill; and whether, seeing that after conviction the next day Mr. Forshaw was removed to Strangeways Hospital and died on 9th June, as the result of bronchitis and pneumonia contracted in the police cell, he will have a public inquiry made into this treatment given to a man prior to trial?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSForshaw was in police custody from the 14th to the 17th May and was not treated as an invalid, and made no application to be treated as such. On reception into prison on the 17th he was admitted into the prison hospital until the 20th, when he was released on bail in view of his appeal to Quarter Sessions. At that time there were no signs of illness other than 553 diabetes, from which he had been suffering for four years. On the 21st May he called on the police, and expressed satisfaction with his treatment during detention both in police custody and in prison. I understand that he fell ill on the 5th June, 16 days after his release from prison, and on the facts before me no connection is shown between his treatment while in custody and his death from bronchitis and pneumonia on the 9th June.