MR. FIELDI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can state about what date the Report of the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis may be expected; whether he is aware that great dissatisfaction exists in many places, owing to confiscations and injury to business caused by proceedings on the part of certain local administrators; whether such proceedings can be modified pending the report of the Commission; and whether he is aware that many of those prosecutions have been instituted in opposition to the 235 recommendations made by the first Royal Commission?
§ MR. CHAPLIN (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)The Royal Commission have under consideration their Report, but I am unable to say about what date the Report will be issued. As to the second question, this is a matter on which the Royal Commission have taken evidence, but I have not yet received the evidence taken by them. With respect to the third, I have no authority to alter the existing law, under which seizures may be made by officers of Sanitary Authorities and carcases condemned by Justices. The answer to the fourth question is in the negative.