§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the attention of the Local Government Board had been drawn to the case of a poor person named Loughlin, who resided at 5, Memel Street, in the borough of Belfast, and who died without dispensary relief on the 26th March 1884; if it be true that a red line marked "urgent," and signed by Mr. John Reid, P.L.G. for the district, was delivered to Dr. Croker, the dispensary officer for Ballymacarrett district, on the evening of the 25th March 1884, to which no attention was paid; and, if any steps will be taken to inquire whether there was negligence in the case?
§ MR. TREVELYANA complaint was addressed to the Local Government Board with regard to this case, and they made inquiry into it, and found that there was no blame to be attached to the medical officer; and they subsequently ascertained that the complaint had been made under an assumed name. The facts are that, at about 10 o'clock on the night of the 25th of March, the father of the patient left a visiting ticket with the doctor, asking him to visit his son, who was suffering from consumption, on the following day. He explained that he only left the ticket that night because he would be at work 423 in the morning. The patient, however, died suddenly at 5 o'clock in the morning.