§ MR. FRASER-MACKINTOSHI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to a sum of £74,500 which appears in the Votes for Civil Services for the current year under the head of "Medical Officers of Health and Inspectors of Nuisances," whether any similar grant is made to Scotland, where sanitation appointments are compulsory, while it is optional in England; and whether in the inquiry promised this matter will be taken up and the anomaly removed?
§ MR. GOSCHENThe hon. Member is under a misapprehension. The item of £74,500 to which he refers does not appear in the Estimates for the current year. It appeared in the Estimates for 1888–89 for the last time, and an analogous item was continued for Scotland till the year after. Both grants have now disappeared under the Local Government Acts, and in both cases an equivalent has been given in the form of licences.