§ MR. MORTON (Sutherland)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in view of the fact that H.M.S. "Actæon," with about 300 men on board, has been for some months past moored near Stangate Creek, in the river Medway, and is being used as a torpedo school, he will say if the Lords of the Admiralty have received representations from various sanitary authorities and other bodies pointing out the danger to public health involved by the discharged of sewage from this vessel for so long a period; and, having regard to the close proximity of oyster layings, what steps the Lords of the Admiralty intend to take to obviate or minimise such danger.
MR. EDMUND KOBERTSONThe Admiralty have received representations on this subject, and after careful consideration have decided that the removal of the vessel from her present station is unnecessary. Instructions have, however, been issued that the discharge of sewage is to be so regulated as to obviate the danger referred to.