MR. MAC NEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether complaints have reached him that the sewerage system of Derry is a tide locked sewerage, and that the Corporation, although aware of the defects of this system, have deferred the question of the proper ventilation of the sewers indefinitely; also that the sewerage of the gaol runs into this defective sewerage of the city; and whether, inasmuch as the gaol is situated at the very summit level of the city, and necessarily becomes the receptacle of the sewer gases, which must rise up to it and escape through the ordinary sewer traps into the gaol, he will take steps to remedy this danger to the health of prisoners in this gaol?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI am afraid that I must ask the hon. Gentleman to defer this question until Tuesday, because before that date the Local Government Board inform me they will not be able to send a Report.
§ In reply to Mr. SEXTON,
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURsaid: I gather from the Report of Dr. O'Farrell that no danger need be entertained.
MR. MAC NEILLSeeing that the medical officer of the prison, Sir William Miller, is closely connected with the Corporation and that there is a distinct charge brought against the Corporation, is it not advisable that there should be a distinct medical investigation?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI must await the Report of the Local Government Board before I can answer that question.