§ MR. BRUNNER (Cheshire, Northwich)asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether his attention has been called to the Report of Dr. John Makinson Fox, Medical Officer of Health to the Northwich Rural Sanitary Authority, on Friday last, in which he recounts the difficulties he experiences in protecting the public from the spread of infectious disease, through the absence of a compulsory notification to Medical Officers of Health of the occurrence of cases of such disease, and declares that the law appears to care less for the health of human beings than for that of swine; and, whether he can hold out any hope that this defect in the law may be speedily remedied?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)My attention has been called to the Report referred to; and I may state that the Government hope to be able to introduce a Bill to deal with the compulsory notification of infectious disease.