§ 1. Colonel DAYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, with a view to safeguarding the health of men employed in the handling of hides and skins, he will cause regulations to be made that will result in diagrams of the symptoms, progress, and treatment of anthrax being exhibited in all places where such skins likely to cause anthrax are handled by workpeople?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)Regulations are already in force requiring the exhibition of an official placard of the kind described in the Question at all docks, warehouses, factories and other premises under the Factory Acts where dry-salted hides or skins imported from Asia or Africa are handled, and the inspectors are instructed to use every effort to get this placard exhibited in all places where there is any risk of anthrax from handling of hides, 424 Skins or other animal products. If the hon. Member can give me any case in which the Regulations are disobeyed, I will inquire into it at once.