§ CAPTAIN DONELANOn behalf of the honourable Member for Mid Cork I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if any attention is intended to be paid to Dr. Wheaton's remonmstrances on the sanitary condition of Huntingdon borough; whether he is aware that many houses are supplied with water from shallow wells almost necessarily dangerously polluted; that the dwellings of the poor are unsatisfactory as a rule, 'being damp, dilapidated, with thatched roofs, without eave spouting, and with filthy surroundings, sewerage, and drainage being equally defective; and if anything will be done to remedy the alleged condition of affairs?
§ MR. T. W. RUSSELLI am informed by the town council that most of the recommendations of Dr. Wheaton have been carried out, wholly or in part, whilst others are at the present time under the consideration of the council, especially ,a scheme for the disposal of the sewage of the borough. It is stated that 266 as regards the cottages with thatched roofs the total number now does not exceed 25, and in no instance are they capable of being condemned as unfit for human habitation, nor are they in an' insanitary condition. The medical officer of health reports that very few wells now remain in the town, and that the water supply of the borough is obtained from the gravel of the Ouse Valley.