MR. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHasked the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, with reference to the Holborn Improvement Scheme, dated 19th November 1875 (named in the Return No. 294, of last Session) under "The Arti- 826 zans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875," What has been the fate of that scheme, and what steps the Board propose to take to deal with the district, declared by the Medical Officer of Health to be an unhealthy area in his representation dated 19th July 1875?
SIR JAMES HOGGIn reply to the Question of my hon. Friend, I beg to remind him that the scheme to which he refers was not approved by the Secretary of State. The Board of Works has brought in a Bill, which has just been read a second time to-day, for the purpose, among others, of widening Gray's Inn Lane, and the property required for this purpose will include a great portion of the unhealthy dwellings which were comprised in the scheme, and, in those circumstances, the Board did not think it expedient to deposit a new scheme.