§ Sir C. OMANasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the Annual Report of the medical officer of health for Wigton, Cumberland, for the year 1924, in which it is stated that there were 80 houses unfit for human habitation in the urban district; and, seeing that this amounted to about 10 per cent. of all the houses in that district, that those 80 houses had been condemned by a succession of medical officers, and that the Reports of the medical officer of health for Cumberland show that, for each of the years 1922, 1923, and 1924, the Wigton Urban District had the second highest death rate of all the 14 urban districts of Cumberland, whether he will, if he has not already done so, now send a medical inspector to report?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI am aware of the report made by the medical officer to which my lion. Friend draws attention. The urban district council have the matter under consideration and a special inspection of the district is being made. I have asked that a copy of the report on this investigation may be submitted to me. In the circumstances I think it desirable to await the receipt of this report.