§ SIR H. ROSCOE (Manchester, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, considering that, the lives of thousands of Her Majesty's Mahomedan subjects are every year placed in danger in consequence of the insanitary condition of Mecca during the Hajj, and in view of the fact that some mouths ago a, public meeting of Mahomedans was held at Madura, when a resolution was passed to memorialise the Sultan of Turkey to adopt suitable measures for improving the sanitation of Mecca and other places of pilgrimage, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will urge the Forte to secure the immediate publication of the Report of the Ottoman Board of Health on this subject?
§ * SIR E. GREYThe subject already occupies the attention of Her Majesty's Embassy, and no effort will be spared to secure the adoption of suitable sanitary measures by the Ottoman Authorities.
§ SIR H. ROSCOECan the hon. Baronet say when this Ottoman Board was constituted?
§ SIR E. GREYI cannot.