§ COLONEL NAGHTENasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether he has considered the desirability, with a view to the better carrying out of the Public Health Act, especially with regard to the suppression of nuisances, of making it compulsory to appoint the Medical Officers of Health, in all cases, for unions or other large areas, instead of, as is now sometimes the case, for parishes only?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTH,in reply, said, he was not altogether satisfied with the existing condition of the law on that subject; but he did not intend to propose any change in the law at present. The Local Government Board had always encouraged a combination of local authorities in respect to the appointment of these officers, and it would continue to do so; but it had no power under the existing Act to compel such combination of authorities.