§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)asked the Secretary of State for the Home 634 Department, Whether the causes of the recent outbreak of typhoid fever in the Lincolnshire County Asylum have been investigated; whether the epidemic is attributable to defective sanitary inspection, with resulting imperfection as regards drainage, &c.; and, whether the Report of the Lincoln Medical Officer of Health is correct in attributing epidemic to external producing causes?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)Yes, Sir, I am informed by the Lunacy Commissioners that the causes of this outbreak have been investigated by the asylum authorities. It has been traced to defects in the system of drainage, which was supposed to have been put into complete order in 1881. The Lunacy Commissioners have not been furnished with any Report of the medical officer to the effect quoted; but that officer was probably in error if he attributed the epidemic to external producing causes. The asylum has now been placed in a satisfactory sanitary condition.