§ MR. COBBI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether, referring to the promise which he gave to the hon. Member for the Rugby Division of Warwickshire on the 20th of August last, he can now state what steps have since being taken with regard to the sewerage works for Harrow Weald, and what is the cause of the continued delay; whether he is aware that there have recently been cases of typhoid fever in Harrow Weald; and whether he will call the serious attention of the Hendon Rural Sanitary Authority to their neglect of duty, and urge upon them the grave importance of getting the works completed?
§ THE PRESIDE NT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RITCHIE,) Tower Hamlets, St. George'sAt the time the previous question of the hon. Member was asked the Hendon Rural Sanitary Authority were negotiating for the purchase of additional land for the purification of the sewage. The Local Government Board have been in frequent communication with the Authority since then. The Authority ultimately proposed a scheme, to which the Board were unable to assent, and they requested that it might be re-considered, and that the Board might be informed of the result as early as possible. I now learn that some delay has been occasioned by the illness of the surveyor, but that he has met the Committee, and is preparing further plans. I have no information as to an outbreak of typhoid fever in the district. I trust that the scheme as to the works will be settled at an early date and the execution of the works expedited as much as possible, and I have so informed the Authority.
§ MR. RITCHIEIt is not the same, because I have given this without referring to the other. I am determined, however, that something shall be done.