§ Sir C. OMANasked the Minister of Health whether a Return of deaths upon which a coroner's jury had returned a verdict of death from starvation or death accelerated by privation was published annually by the Local Government Board as regards London ever since the Local Government Board came into existence; whether this was found of such great importance that many years ago it was extended to the provinces; whether he is aware that owing to unemployment the number of destitute itinerants is far larger than during the War, many of them being ex-service men in search of employment; and whether he will publish a like Return for 1922 as soon as possible?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe selection of cases for inclusion in the Return to which my hon. Friend refers depended upon the terms of the verdict of the coroner's juries and on the classification of those verdicts by the several coroners. No uniform or scientific principle was followed; the Return was in consequence both useless and misleading, and I do not think the position is altered by the increase
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STATIONERY OFFICE PUBLICATIONS PREVIOUSLY ISSUED AS PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Title. Price of latest Edition. Number supplied to Members of Parliament when last distributed as a Parliamentary Paper. Admiralty. £ s. d. Admiralty Surveys. Report, 1921 0 2 6 370 Dockyard Expense Accounts, 1920–21 1 0 0 170 Health of the Navy, Statistical Report for 1915 0 7 6 250 Aeronautical Research Com. Annual Report, 1921–22 0 2 6 190 Agriculture. Agricultural Statistics, 1921. Vol. 56, Part II 0 1 0 190 Agricultural Statistics, 1921. Vol. 56, Part III 0 1 6 each. Agricultural Statistics, 1922. Vol. 57, Part I 1 6 190 Agricultural Statistics, (Scotland), 1921. Vol. 10, Parts I to III. 0 4 6 190 each. 0 1 6 0 2 0 Diseases of Animals Acts, & c. Annual Report, 1920 0 2 6 250 Sea Fisheries Regulation Act. Report of 28th Meeting 0 1 6 190 Tithe, Copyhold, & c, Act. Annual Report, 1921 0 2 0 190 Small Holdings and Allotments Acts. Annual Report for 1920, Part II. 0 2 0 250 Small Holdings, Colonies. Report of Proceedings for 1920–21. 0 3 6 190 British Museum. British Museum. Annual Report for 1921 0 1 0 170 Civil Service Commission. 66th Report 0 2 0 190 in the number of casual paupers to which my hon. Friend refers. For these reasons I do not think that any useful purpose would be served by a revival of the Return.