asked the Minister of Health if he will report the progress made in the areas in which serious water scarcity prevailed in the way of new undertakings or the setting up of joint boards to cover regional areas?

Up to the present, the towns generally have well withstood the undoubted strain of the exceptional drought. As regards rural areas, I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Sir J. Lamb) on 12th March.

asked the Minister of Transport if he can now state when the Leatherhead and Dorking by-pass roads are likely to be open to the public?

Certain sections of both these by-passes have already been opened to traffic, and both by-passes will be open throughout their length by the end of June.

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty how many cases of spotted fever or other illness have occurred in H.M.S. "Furious"; and whether any of the patients had been vaccinated or inoculated and, if so, on what dates during their period of service?

During 1933, 227 officers and men were treated on the sick list in His Majesty's Ship "Furious" for a variety of injuries and diseases, chiefly catarrh, of which there were 74 cases. No case of spotted fever occurred during that year, but there was one case in January, 1934, the rating affected being landed at the Isolation Hospital, Gibraltar. I regret that I have not yet any information as to whether he had been vaccinated or inoculated. Unless they object on conscientious grounds, all officers and men are re-vaccinated at intervals of five years, and are also inoculated against the typhoid group before a ship proceeds abroad and at intervals during the period of foreign service. It is not the custom to inoculate against spotted fever.