§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that Dr. J. Lloyd Roberts, of Colwyn Bay, county medical officer of health, when recently submitting his annual Report at a meeting of the district council of St. Asaph, North Wales, was requested to amend it; and will he state whether a local authority has the right to insist on a medical officer of health withdrawing statements which he has thought proper to make in his annual Report in regard to the sanitary condition of a district under his supervision.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. JOHN BURNS, Battersea)I am informed that, in the opinion of the St. Asaph Rural District Council, the Report was inaccurate and incomplete, and that the medical officer of health has been asked further to consider it, and to submit it at the next meeting of the council. I am not fully acquainted with the circumstances of the present case, but speaking generally, it does not appear to me that a district council can insist on the withdrawal by the medical officer of health of statements in his annual Report in regard to the sanitary condition of the district under his supervision.