§ MR. CALDWELL (Lanarkshire, Mid)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the attention of the Local Government Board for Scotland has been called to the scarcity of water in the district of Shotts, in the county of Lanark, with a population of close on 12,000, notwithstanding that for seven years the inhabitants had been charged water rates, whilst no connection with any water supply had been made, and when a remedy for this state of things is likely to be provided.
*MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAYThe Local Government Board for Scotland are informed by the county medical officer of Lanarkshire that the villages, asylum, and hospital, etc., in the parish of Shotts have gravitation water supplies, with numerous connections; that no complaint of scarcity of water has been received, and that rates are levied in accordance with statutes.