 This embodied a vast amount of original research and was in no sense a committee report.In November 1871, Edward, Prince of Wales, who was later to become King Edward VII, contracted typhoid fever while he was staying at Londesborough Lodge, Scarborough; George Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield, a fellow guest dying of the disease.This brought to public attention the subject of house sanitation and Corfield, at the request of Lord Londesborough, examined the house describing it in a letter to the Times newspaper, 22 January 1872.