§ SIR HENRY PEEKasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether his attention has been called to a report made by the Officers of Health to the Wandsworth Local Board relative to the sanitary condition of the Royal Patriotic Schools on Wandsworth Common, in which it is stated that the sewage lies in pools on the land adjoining the Schools, and has been the cause of fever amongst the children; and, whether he proposes to take any steps to prevent these Schools becoming a source of danger and disease to the neighbourhood?
§ MR. CHILDERSSir, in reply to the hon. Baronet, I have to remind him that I have no authority whatever over the schools of the Patriotic Fund, which are managed by a Royal Commission en- 1053 tirely independent of the War Office. To enable me, however, to answer his Question, I have to-day obtained from the Secretary to the Commission an explanation which I do not consider satisfactory, and about which I am, therefore, writing officially to the Commissioners.