§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what evidence exists that bathing in water contaminated by sewage is a health hazard.
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§ Sir George YoungA report, following a six-year study, on sewage contamination of coastal bathing water in England and Wales produced for the Medical Research Council by a committee of the public health laboratory service in December 1959 concluded that there was negligible risk to health from such water unless so heavily fouled as to be aesthetically totally unacceptable. Our closely integrated infectious disease control and public health laboratory services have found no subsequent evidence to cast doubt on this conclusion.