§ THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN (Mr. SEXTON) (Belfast, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant 642 of Ireland, Whether the Irish General Prisons Board have issued a Circular directing medical officers to furnish in future to the Board a weekly Return, in a prescribed form, of prisoners under special medical treatment, including cases in which change of diet or extra diet had been ordered, or any remission of labour or exemption granted?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.), in reply, said: The General Prisons Board report that, in accordance with the statutable requirement, it has always been the practice for the medical officer of a prison to present a Report giving a Return of the extra diets awarded by him. The Board have recently altered the form of the Return, and this is, doubtless, the origin of the rumour to which the hon. Gentleman refers.
§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)Has it not been the usual practice to keep a Return as to special medical treatment, and not as "extra diet?"
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI understand it is the duty of the medical officer to keep the Board informed as to the particular diets which he orders.