§ MAJOR NOLANhad a Notice on the Paper to ask the President of the Local Government Board, If it is a fact that a man named Patrick Feeny, who had been resident over twenty years in Blackburn, was removed from the Blackburn Workhouse Hospital and sent in charge of a Poor Law official to Dublin; if this official left him in Dublin with a loaf of bread and with two shillings to defray his expenses to Gort, in the county of Galway, a distance of 130 miles; if Patrick Feeny had been nine months in hospital suffering from paralysis, and if at the time he was left in Dublin he was in a state of great debility and scarcely able to crawl; and, further, was any certificate of a doctor procured before the man was thus removed, and what were the terms of the certificate, and was any promise made by any of the workhouse officials to Patrick Feeny before quitting Blackburn that he would be left in Gort?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTH, in reply, said, the Notice had already been put on the Paper by the hon. and gallant Member, and he had assured him on a previous occasion that there was no foundation for the statement contained with re- 276 ference to Feeny. He thought it rather hard on the Blackburn Union that the subject should be again brought forward without any further information being forthcoming.