asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons, specifying men, women, boys and girls, on the Devonport Employment Exchange during the month of March, 1927?

The following table shows the numbers of persons on the register of the Devonport, Employment Exchange on each Monday in March, 1927.

I am informed that 10 deaths from diphtheria have occurred in the Higher Broughton district this year. The ages of the patients were as follow:

asked the Postmaster-General whether any further consideration has been given by his Department with a view to disinfecting telephone mouthpieces against such epidemics as influenza?

I consider that the arrangements for regularly disinfecting the mouthpieces of public telephones, which I described in my reply to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Acton on the 27th April lasts of which I am sending the hon. Member a copy, are adequate.

asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to the annoyance caused to listeners-in on three nights a week when dance music is being broadcast from Daventry; and whether, seeing that this annoyance is due to the fact that holders of experimental licences avail themselves of their privileges on these occasions, he will take steps either to forbid any testing to begin until Daventry has closed down or, alternatively, to terminate the programme from Daventry at 11 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?

My attention has not been drawn to the matter referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend. I am surprised to learn that there is any appreciable interference by experimenters with the reception of Daventry programmes, as the wavelengths which experimenters are authorised to use are far removed from the 1,600 metres wave length of the Daventry station. If my hon. and gallant Friend will bring any particular case of which he may have knowledge to the attention of the British Broadcasting Corporation, I have no doubt that they will immediately investigate it.