§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEYasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether the Digest of Sanitary Statutes which he has prepared in two Codes, Urban and Rural, is so complete as to render any legislation during the present Session in the way of collecting and consolidating the existing Statutes unnecessary and inexpedient whatever may be advisable in the way of amending them?
§ MR. STANSFELD,in reply, said that since the right hon. Baronet had done him the honour of asking his opinion as to the completeness of the Digest of Sanitary Statutes he would give it for what it was worth. He did not think it 896 expedient or necessary to attempt to consolidate what were termed the Sanitary Acts during the present Session of Parliament. He did not think it would be expedient to attempt such a work, because he believed that it was a task that might be attempted, but not practically accomplished. He did not think it would be necessary at present to go beyond the digest which had been prepared in two codes, urban and rural. In preparing that digest the various sanitary Acts had been taken to pieces and re-arranged under practical headings, so that any man without a knowledge of law could refer to this digest and ascertain what was the law upon the subject, all redundant phraseology having been got rid of.
§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEYasked when the digest would be published?
§ MR. STANSFELDreplied that it was now in the hands of the Queen's Printer.