§ 76. Mr. HAYES (for Mr. GROVES)asked the. Minister of Health whether he is aware that in September two boys in Leeds, aged eight and nine, played at being butchers and maimed and mutilated 16 calves and cut the tendons of one calf so that it was unable to move, slashed others in the face and in various parts of the body, and cut off the tail of another, and that the chairman of the Juvenile Court said that it was one of the most distressing cases he had known, and that it was found that the two boys had been in the habit of witnessing the sights of the slaughter-house; and whether he will recommend that Clause 9b of the Ministry of Health bye-laws, enforcing the use of a mechanically-operated killer of animals, he adopted in Leeds by the local authorities and other places?
§ Sir K. WOODMy right hon. Friend's attention had been called by the City Council to the case mentioned in the first part of the question. They are already proposing a new by-law to prohibit slaughtering in the public view, and this seems to bear more directly on the case than the particular by-law suggested in the second part of the question.