§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works, if it is in tended to attempt to prevent the very bad smells which again of late have occasioned repeated complaints in the Galleries and Lobbies of this House; and whether complete sanitary precautions will be taken to prevent sewer gas endangering the health of the officials, and constant attendants of this House?
§ MR. PLUNKETI do not think that complaints about bad smells have been lately at all as frequent as formerly they used to be; in fact, that contained in the question of the hon. Member is the first that has reached me this year. No doubt vagrant odours do some times come across the river and from other parts of the surrounding districts, to play about in the courtyards of this palace, and I fear it would not be possible entirely to exclude such unwelcome visitors. But hon. Members may rest assured that, so far as the drainage of this House is concerned, every precaution has been taken against the dangers of sewer gas that modern science can suggest.
§ DR. TANNERIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the smells recently noticed about the House have proceeded from the rear of the building? A constable in the Lobby in question told 274 me when I inquired that it was the Ministers' Gallery.
§ MR. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)May I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman is satisfied as to the sanitary condition of Committee room No. 15?