§ SIR HARDINGE GIFFARDasked the President of the Local Government Board, Upon what grounds the Local Government Board have declined to receive a deputation of the rural sanitary authority of the Isle of Wight with reference to the appointment of district medical officer of health; and, whether there is any objection to the production of said Correspondence between the Local Government Board and their officers and the rural sanitary authority of the Isle of Wight or its individual members?
§ MR. HIBBERTSir, the facts with regard to the appointment of medical officers of health for the district in question were so fully within the knowledge of the Local Government Board, that they did not consider that any advantage would result from the attendance of a deputation, and the sanitary authority was informed to that effect. The Board have had no correspondence on the subject of these appointments, except with the sanitary authority itself. If there has been any correspondence with 900 Inspectors of the Board and the sanitary authority, or individual members thereof, the correspondence has not been submitted to the Board. The correspondence between the Board and the sanitary authority has extended over several years, and there would be no objection to produce that correspondence and also a Report of their Inspector made in 1881. If, however, it were intended that the Board's correspondence should be printed as a Parliamentary Paper, the Board consider that the Return should, on account of the expense, be limited to so much of that correspondence as relates to the appointments made in 1882 and the present year.