§ Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the Minister of Health if he is aware that the public assistance committee of Dorset-shire desires to house 80 children of both sexes in an old workhouse at Beaminster; and whether he proposes to assent to this course?
§ Mr. GREENWOODThe Dorset County Council have asked whether I am prepared to sanction a proposal of the public assistance committee to allocate temporarily the Beaminster Institution for the accommodation of children chargeable to the county whom it is not possible to deal with by boarding-out. I am not at present satisfied that the proposal is desirable or practicable, and I propose to communicate with the council on the subject.