§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDE (Dublin Co., S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, How many increases of pay and allowances have taken place in Dundrum. Criminal Lunatic Asylum; what they amount to; and, what are the names and the positions of the officials who received them?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(whoreplied)said: Since the opening of Dundrum Asylum, in 1850, the following increases in the remuneration of its officials appear to have taken place:—The resident physician and governor, original salary £240 a-year. This salary was increased on five different occasions to the present scale of £400, by £10 a-year to £450 a-year. The visiting physician, original salary £150 a-year; increased in 1868 to its present rate of £175 a-year. Chaplains.—The Protestant chaplain had up to 1875 £40 a-year; since that date the salary has been £50 a-year. The Roman Catholic chaplain had up to 1875 £60 a-year; since that date the salary has been £80 a-year. The head male attendant, original salary £24, later on £40, and since 1874 £50, by £2 a-year to £60 a-year. The subordinate staff, composed of attendants and ordinary domestics, received formerly wages averaging from £12 to £18 a-year. The present increased rates for the subordinate staff shown in the Estimates date, for the most part, from the 1st of April, 1874. These several increased rates of remuneration were not assigned to individual persons; but to the different posts named. The total of the increased rate of remuneration appears to be about £450.