CASUAL WARDS (STONE-POUNDING).

HC Deb 30 June 1925 vol 185 cc2240-1W

Sir C. OMAN

asked the Minister of Health at what date stone-pounding, originally a task imposed on the inmates of prisons, but now discontinued for them, was first imposed as a task for destitute wayfarers?

Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

The earliest approval of stone-pounding as a task for casuals which can be traced was given on the 5th March, 1883.