§ Mr. BROADasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his 536W attention has been called to the serious epidemics of small-pox which have occurred in Madras and Calcutta in recent years; whether he is aware that compulsory Vaccination Acts have been in force in those towns for 40 years and have resulted in a high percentage of the child population having been vaccinated; and whether, seeing that in Indian towns small-pox has not been controlled by vaccination, he will issue instructions to all the Governments of India requiring them to take steps to improve the sanitary conditions of the larger towns of the various provinces, seeing that in England the passing of the Public Health Act of 1875 resulted in a great diminution of small-pox and all other eruptive fevers?
§ Earl WINTERTONMy Noble Friend is aware of the facts mentioned in the first two parts of the question. He has no power to issue the instructions suggested, as public health is a "transferred" subject.