§ MR. THOMAS DEWARI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the recently issued reports of the medical officers of health for the late Limehouse Board of Works and the late St. George's-in-the-East Vestry, wherein Dr. Thomas (Limehouse) states that the overcrowding is almost entirely due to the immigration of pauper aliens, and Dr. Rygate (St. George's-in-the-East) says that the population is 200 per acre, while for London it is 61.5 per acre, and that the alien characteristics of the parish are annually more pronounced, and in time the population will become almost entirely foreign, and that the 998 population per house is 8.7, reckoning tenements in industrial dwellings as one house; and, in view of these statements, can he hold out any promise of remedial legislation.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. WALTER LONG,) Bristol, S.I have seen the reports referred to in the question. I gather that the legislation which my hon. friend desires would have for its object the checking of alien immigration. This is not a matter within the province of the Local Government Board, and I cannot hold out any promise of legislation with regard to it.