§ MR. CONYBEARE (Cornwall, Camborne)asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether his attention had been called to the insanitary condition of the Cradley District, as described in the following passage from Mr. Burnett's Report:—
Open drains everywhere carrying off house-hold refuse, and ruinous privies with overflowing ash-pits, loading the atmosphere with the most pungent odours;and whether he will send down a Local Government Board Inspector to inquire into and report upon the same?
THE SECRETARY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. LONG)(who replied) (Wilts, Devizes)said: An Inspector of the Board has very recently been inquiring as to the prevalence of fever in certain places in the Rural Sanitary District of the Stourbridge Union, which includes Cradley. I am not in a position to-day to say whether this inquiry has been extended to the sanitary condition of Cradley; and I shall be glad if the hon. Member will defer his Question.