Oral Answers to Questions — Child Neglect (Chesterfield).

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 30 July 1925.

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Photo of Mr Harry Day Mr Harry Day , Southwark Central

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asked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the case recently dealt with at Chesterfield Police Court, where a man and his wife were charged with neglecting their children, when it appeared that the family of seven lived in a shed that had previously been occupied by swine, there being no fireplace, chimney, ashpit, or drainage, for which they paid 3s. per week; and whether he will have the matter inquired into?