§ SIR J. PENDER (Northants, Mid)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether there is any precedent under section 299 of the Public Health Act, 1875, for declaring a district Council in default with regard to sufficient sewers in the case of a village such as Holcot, with a steadily decreasing population, now about 300, which is exceptionally healthy, and where there has been no epidemic, and over whose sanitary arrangements the district council has recently spent between two and three hundred pounds; and, if not, whether he will withdraw the order that the rural district council shall undertake further sewage works within six months?
§ MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.)In the case referred to the facts were fully inquired into, and as the result of that inquiry the Board were satisfied that the district council have made default in providing their district with sufficient sewers, and this being the case it 79 became the statutory duty of the Board to issue the Order in question, and the Order cannot be withdrawn. As regards the question as to what course has been taken in other cases, the decision of the Board is arrived at in each case in connection with the particular circumstances of that case.