§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact that fever has again broken out in Maryborough Prison; whether, after the outbreak of fever in 1884, water for use within the prison was obtained from the town; and, whether the inmates have now to use the prison water, which is so bad that it has to be boiled and filtered before use?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)The General Prisons Board state that three cases of fever have recently occurred in Maryborough Prison. The water in 1884 was obtained from out-outside the prison, but not from the town supply. Early last year the water was analyzed by Sir Charles Cameron, and favourably reported on. The re- 1090 cent order as to boiling and filtering has been given merely as an additional precaution pending a further analysis both of the water from the supply now in use and that from another source which has been suggested.
§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked, if the right hon. Gentleman could say whether the fever was due to the defective sanitary arrangements generally in the prison; and, whether the defective arrangements had not already resulted in the death of one of the warders?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHsaid, that one of the warders had died of fever.