Mr. A. DUCKWORTHasked the Secretary for Mines whether he is satisfied that every possible precaution has now been taken to safeguard the barytes mines and quarry workers in the Pontesbury and Minsterley districts of Shropshire from the dangers of silicosis; and whether he is satisfied that the precautions are being duly enforced by His Majesty's inspectors of mines and are proving effective?
§ Captain CROOKSHANKFollowing investigations by His Majesty's Inspectors of Mines, the best available precautions have been adopted at the barytes workings in this district and I hope that experience will show them to be effective. Necessarily the effective application of the1356W day-to-day precautions which are prescribed is largely in the hands of the management and the workmen themselves, but the inspectors also give the matter close attention whenever they visit the workings.