SIR C.CAMERON () Glasgow, CollegeI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether it is true that a severe epidemic of typhoid fever is at present raging at Worthing; and, if so, whether any steps have been taken to apprise visitors and excursionists of the fact?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. H. H. FOWLER, Wolverhampton, E.)It is quite true that there has been a severe epidemic of typhoid fever at Worthing. Between the 1st and the 19th of this month 548 cases of enteric fever were notified to the Worthing Sanitary Authority. The clerk to the Sanitary Authority has been in communication with the Railway Company with reference to discontinuing the running of ordinary excursion trains and school excursion trains to Worthing, and the Railway Company are advising schools not to send excursions there; but the Railway Company 196 say that they cannot discontinue their advertised trains. The statements which have appeared in the public Press have gone far to apprise visitors and excursionists of the fact of the epidemic.