Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health. – in the House of Commons at on 14 March 1929.
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN:
Of the 17 rural districts in Kent in which, according to the latest information in my possession, hop growing is carried on, 10 councils have by-Laws agreeing with the latest model series and five have by-laws agreeing with an earlier model series. The two remaining districts have small acreages under hops. The by-laws in force all agree substantially with the model by-laws on which they were based. I will send the hon. Member a list of the districts, indicating the kind of by-laws in force, and a copy of the present and the former model series.
Mr Horace Crawfurd
, Walthamstow West
For the benefit of those who represent urban areas, may I ask what is meant by the description "hop pickers in toto"?
Mr Horace Crawfurd
, Walthamstow West
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that Lewis Carroll said that "toto" was the ablative of "tarn turn"?
Mrs. DALTON:
35.asked the Minister of Health whether he has received a Report of an investigation by the London County Council into the condition of London children hop-picking in Kent in 1928; and whether, in view of the overcrowding, bad sanitation, and lack of water described as existing in some places, he will urge all the rural district councils concerned to adopt the Ministry of Health's by-Laws in toto?
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Laws are the rules by which a country is governed. Britain has a long history of law making and the laws of this country can be divided into three types:- 1) Statute Laws are the laws that have been made by Parliament. 2) Case Law is law that has been established from cases tried in the courts - the laws arise from test cases. The result of the test case creates a precedent on which future cases are judged. 3) Common Law is a part of English Law, which has not come from Parliament. It consists of rules of law which have developed from customs or judgements made in courts over hundreds of years. For example until 1861 Parliament had never passed a law saying that murder was an offence. From the earliest times courts had judged that murder was a crime so there was no need to make a law.
