§ Mr. Liddallasked the Home Secretary the result of the arrangements made by the West Bromwich local authority in connection with gas lectures, for cinema 800W employés to enter the gas-chamber on 31st July; and whether any persons found medically certified as suffering from tear-gas poisoning affecting the heart, as a result of such test, will be compensated?
§ Mr. MabaneMy right hon. Friend is informed that a number of cinema employés recently received training from the West Bromwich corporation in anti-gas measures, and as part of this training were allowed to enter a gas chamber in which tear gas had been released. Later in the same day, one of the 35 persons who passed through the chamber became ill, was taken to the district hospital and offered admission which he refused. No medical evidence that the illness was due to tear gas poisoning has been submitted to the Department or, I am informed, to the local authority.