§ Mr. BOOTHasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the hardships frequently experienced by workmen, especially miners, in the administration of the Workmen Compensation Acts; whether he is aware that in recent cases of colliery accidents, where there has been no dispute either as to liability or as to the facts of the case, the doctors who act for the employers have not been allowed to visit the patients at the hospitals; and whether he will consider the desirability of reducing the period of six weeks waiting, in view of the privation and suffering caused to the families concerned?
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§ Mr. McKENNANo representations that employers' doctors are refused permission to visit injured workmen in hospital have reached me; but if my hon. Friend will be good enough to supply me with particulars of the cases referred to, I will have inquiry made.