Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the President of the Local Government Board if he can state the result of the inquiries into the sanitary condition of the houses at West Ham in which the five children had lived and whose deaths were, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury, due to consumption?
§ Mr. BURNSI understand that the houses in question had all been inspected during the last 18 months, but a further inspection has now been made. Certain defects have been found to exist in some of the houses, and notices have been served upon the owners, requiring them to remedy these defects. The notice has been complied with in every instance except one. In that case, part of the work has been done, and legal proceedings against the owner have been threatened if it is not completed at an early date.