§ MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he can state the number of deaths from plague, cholera, and small-pox, respectively, in any quinquennial period prior to the establishment of British supremacy in India, in the territories corresponding with, or approximating to, the presidencies of Madras, Bombay, Bengal, including East Bengal, the United Provinces, and the Punjab; also the amount spent on famine relief, and the amount of remissions or suspensions of land revenue 1714 in each of the provinces named during the like period on account of the total or partial failure of crops; and whether he can give the same information in respect of any other administration in Asia, whether or not under direct or indirect European control.
(Answered by Mr. Buchanan.) No, we have no means of obtaining the information asked for by the hon. Member.