§ ADMIRAL ERSKINEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether any steps have been taken, in consequence of the Report of a Commission made to the Governor of Bermuda on the subject of the outbreak of yellow 1561 fever in that colony in 1864 (and which was laid upon the table of this House in June 1866), to mark the sense of the Government of the neglect therein referred to on the part of some of the authorities, or if any measures have been adopted with a view of mitigating the effects of such a visitation should it unhappily recur?
§ MR. ADDERLEY, in reply, said, the Secretary for War had requested him to answer this Question. Two local Reports had been referred to the Army Sanitary Committee, who forwarded their comments on them to the War Office in June last. That Committee stated that the local Government appeared to be taking very active steps for the improvement of the sanitary condition of St. George. Nevertheless, it was evident that a much larger and more systematic plan for the supply of water and the drainage of the town was necessary, and the Army Sanitary Committee accordingly recommended that the first stop to accomplish these objects should be a survey of the town. These recommendations of the Committee had been sent to the Governor of Bermuda, with a request that he would take immediate steps to carry them into effect.