§ 35. Mr. Thorneasked the Home Secretary whether he can give any information in connection with the accident at Saint Olaves Hospital, Rotherhithe, when one man was killed and another seriously injured; what was the cause of the accident; and what was the recommendation?
§ Mr. LloydI understand that the hospital was being redecorated, and that a scaffold plank broke so that a painter who was using it fell to the ground and was, I am sorry to say, killed. Another man also fell and was seriously injured. The jury recommended that there should be more supervision of scaffolding by a scaffolder on work of this description.