§ MR. CAVENDISH BENTINCKasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether he had received from the Medway Board of Guardians a Report from their medical officer, Dr. Buchanan, relating to the present state of contagious disease at Chatham; whether this Report was not in possession of the Local Government Board on Thursday last, when the right hon. Baronet said that he had received no Report from Dr. Buchanan; and, whether the right hon. Baronet would lay the Report on the Table of the House?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEThe answer to the first branch of the right hon. Gentleman's Question is in the affirmative. A copy of the Report was received at the Local Government Board on Thursday last, the day on which the Question of the right hon. Gentleman was asked. I have seen the Report, which goes outside the question of Poor Law administration, which is the 1879 only aspect of the subject which concerns the Local Government Board. I do not think it of a nature to receive the general circulation which would be the case were it laid before Parliament; but I shall be happy to let the right hon. Gentleman see it himself if he desires to do so.
§ MR. CAVENDISH BENTINCKexpressed his intention of moving that the Report be laid on the Table of the House.