§ EARL FORTESCUEsaid, that as Parliament had determined to sanction the undertaking of large sanitary works in Lancashire, many of the districts of which were still very unhealthy, he thought it would be very desirable if the Government would send some competent and impartial persons to report upon the cost and results, pecuniary and sanitary, of the various works of drainage and water-supply which had now for several years been completed in between 100 and 200 other places in the kingdom.
§ LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEYsaid, the Government would be happy to take the subject into consideration.