HC Deb 06 August 1896 vol 43 c1697
MR. PICKERSGILL

had given notice of the following Question:— To ask the President of the Local Government Board, whether his attention has been called to the report of an inquest on a child held at Poplar on Monday last, when Dr. Cooper Harrison, the medical witness, attributed the existing prevalence of fatal cases of diarrhoea among children in the East End of London to the scanty supply of water, and also stated that in his own house the water was not turned on more than one hour a day, and that there was a filthy deposit in the water supplied; and, whether, in these circumstances, he will make further representations to the East London Company of the urgent necessity for improving both the quantity and the quality of the water which they are supplying to their customers? The hon. Member said that, at the request of the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Chaplin), he begged to postpone the Question, but he desired to take the opportunity of urging the extreme necessity of improving the quality and quantity of the water supply in East London.