§ 10. Mr. Wootton-Daviesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what records he has of the numbers of children killed by playing with explosives, either our own or of enemy origin, which they have picked up; and whether warnings on the subject can be given at regular intervals in schools.
§ Mr. H. MorrisonComplete statistics of these cases are not available, but there were reports in the Press in 1942 of fatal accidents to sixty children and in 1943 to 34 children from handling Service ammunition and similar dangerous articles. I understand that my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Education has on several occasions in the last two years requested schools to warn all school children periodically of the danger of interfering with strange objects, and illustrated warning posters have been widely displayed at schools and police stations.