§ MR. THORBURN (Peebles and Selkirk)asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, in view of the great amount of sickness and mortality resulting from insanitary dwellings, Her Majesty's Government will introduce a measure making it compulsory for owners of property to have a periodical inspection into the sanitary condition of inhabited houses?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's), in reply, said, he was afraid that, looking to the amount of work already lying before the Government, they could hardly undertake to initiate legislation of the kind referred to.