§ MR. SERJEANT SIMONasked the President of the Local Government Board, How many outbreaks of epidemic complaints have taken place within the last ten years at the preliminary school at Hertford, in connection with Christ's Hospital, and how many fatal cases have occurred on each occasion; what steps have been taken during the period mentioned to place the sanitary arrangements of the school on a proper footing, and bring them in accordance with modern improvements; whether there are not still cesspools in use at the school and in the immediate neighbourhood; what means have been adopted for securing the discharge of sewage from the school; and, whether the situation of the school, being in a watershed, is not unhealthy?
§ MR. DODSON, in reply, said, that there had been six epidemics of measles during the last 10 years. Five deaths had occurred from measles, and four from scarlet fever. He did not know precisely what was the cause of these epidemics, as the water supply was good, there were no cesspools in the immediate neighbourhood, and the drainage had been made by the Corporation of the town.