§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Lord Advocate, in view of the fact that the hovel in which a man named Mackay recently died of typhus fever in the district of Ness, Island of Lewis, was unfit for human habitation, will he state why he was allowed by the public health authorities to remain in this insanitary dwelling and thus imperil the public health of this district.
(Answered by Mr. Graham Murray.) I am informed that the local medical officer of health is of opinion that the house was unfit for habitation, and should be burnt. In the meantime it is unoccupied, and has been closed. It is for the local authority to consider, in light of all the circumstances as disclosed to them, whether it is better to take steps for a particular patient's removal, or to refrain from doing so.