§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether Sheriff Johnstone, a member of the Board of Supervision, visited the Ness district of the Island of Lewis last antumn for the purpose of inquiring into the sanitary conditions of that part of the island; and whether the Board of Supervision will in future, when instituting inquiries into the sanitary state of remote districts in Ross and Cromarty, instruct a medical gentleman to visit the districts instead of a lawyer?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANSheriff Johnstone, in the course of his duty and for judicial work, visited the Lewis last September. He had been previously asked by Lord Lothian to take advantage of his visit to the island to report on various matters connected with the crofters. Being also a member of the Board of Supervision and interested in sanitary matters, he made inquiries about them for his own information, but under no request from the Board. No doubt the Board of Supervision, when conduct- 237 ing inquiries into sanitary matters, will continue to employ medical men as they have done hitherto.