§ MR. LABOUCHEREasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether any action is contemplated, in view of the deputation from the Local Board of Twickenham, which recently waited upon him to call attention to the condition of the Thames between Richmond and Isleworth?
§ MR. H. H. FOWLER,in reply, said, there was some conflict as to who was the responsible Authority in this matter; whether it was the Metropolitan Board of Works, which deposited the sewage, or the Thames Conservancy, who ought to have taken the mud resulting from the sewage away; and there was also some doubt as to what were the powers of the Secretary of State as to one or both of these Bodies. The matter was receiving the careful attention of the Home Office, which was doing all it could to remedy what he must call the 1687 very disgraceful state of the Thames at that point.