§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he can give the House any information as to the outbreak of fever in Clonmel Gaol, and as to the disposition or removal of the suspects therein confined? The hon. Member said he put the Question in consequence of a telegram he had received stating that this was the second outbreak of fever in the prison, and that prisoners were put in the cells next those where the sick prisoners were, and no attention had been made to complaints.
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, that he had sent a telegram that morning directing the Governor to inform him if fever had broken out in Clonmel Gaol, and, in reply, he had received a telegram which stated that a case of typhoid fever had occurred. The inspector and architect of the prison had gone to see what could be done for the safety of the prisoners; but he had not yet received their Report.
§ In reply to Mr. HEALY,
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERassured the hon. Member that he would do all he could in order to prevent a spread of the fever; and he should at once telegraph to inquire as to how the prisoner was who had been attacked by the disease.