§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he is aware that by a resolution of the Ross and Cromarty County Council, passed on the 19th October, 1905, the sum of £200 was retained from the Lewis district committees share of the equivalent grant for the year 1905, and carried to a suspense account, to be applied to the relief of the public health rate in that district when the public health committee of the county council approve of any scheme which the district committee might submit for the more energetic administration of the Public Health Acts in their district; and, seeing that the Lewis district committee have not yet submitted the required scheme to the county council, will he ascertain the cause of the delay, especially having regard to the insanitary condition of the townships in the Island of Lewis, as shown in Dr. Dittmar's Report.
§ MR. SINCLAIRThe district committee does not consider it advisable to expend this money until they are able to consider the re-organisation of public health administration as a whole.