Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health. – in the House of Commons at on 18 February 1935.
asked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the protest sent from 2,000 ratepayers in Shrewsbury against proposals to dump refuse on a site between two good-class residential districts on the banks of the Severn in Shrewsbury, alongside a public footpath used by thousands of people daily, including schoolchildren; and whether, in view of the local circumstances, he will advise the local authority that controlled tipping is less hygienic than incineration as a means of disposal of refuse in this case?