§ MR. A. H. BROWNasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether there is any power in the hands of any rural sanitary authority to close or prevent the inhabitants of such sanitary district from using the water from any wells or streams when they are found by the Medical Officer of Health or Inspector of Nuisances, to be polluted by sewage or other deleterious matter?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTHIn the ease, Sir, of wells or water supplies of a public character, it is in the power of the sanitary authority to prevent the use of polluted water, but in the case of private wells there is no such power. This, with many other points arising under the Sanitary Acts, has been recently under my consideration, with a view to some amendment of the Law, and I hope shortly to be able to make some proposals on the subject.