§ MR. HARRINGTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is true that within the past month three prisoners have died in Belfast Gaol; whether he will say how long these prisoners had been ill; and, why it was that the medical officer of the prison did not recommend the release of any of them?
§ MR. TREVELYANOne prisoner died in Belfast Prison within the last month; prior to that no death had occured in the prison since May in the year before last. The prisoner who recently died was under treatment from the 18th of January to the 31st, when he died. The medical officer did not recommend his release, because his illness had been neither caused nor aggravated by confinement, and he was not of opinion that the prisoner would derive any benefit from being discharged—every care being bestowed upon him in the prison infirmary.