§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary for Scotland if he will state why the Local Government Board 690 for Scotland fail to require the public health authority for the Island of Lewis to request the proprietor to put in a sanitary condition the houses in the island, inhabited by crofters, from whom he receives rent.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) The Local Government Board have done all they can to have the provisions of the Public Health Act enforced in the Lewis, but they have no power or duty to dictate further to the local authority as to the person against whom they are to proceed where there is neglect of any particular requirement of the Act.