§ MR. CHILDERSsaid, much alarm had been excited in the neighbouring towns in consequence of the malignant species of fever which had broken out at Rotherham. He wished, therefore, to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been directed to the alarming extent of mortality and disease in the town of Rotherham, arising from the state of the drainage and the imperfect supply of water; and whether Government will take measures to enforce a remedy thereof?
§ SIR GEORGE GREY, in reply, said, the attention of the Privy Council was called last year to the sanitary state of Rotherham, and the great mortality which prevailed there; and that Department of the Privy Council which was invested by law with the power of making sanitary inquiries sent down two inspectors to investigate the matter. The inspectors had made a Report, and his hon. Friend might have it by moving for it. The cause of the disease had been traced to the bad quality of the water in the place; but he was informed that the Local Board had a Bill before Parliament at the present time with a view to procure a supply of better water.