§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether patients suffering from typhoid fever in Clonmel Prison have been or are being treated in the ordinary prison hospital; and, if so, whether the hospital is a portion of the building and under the same roof that the governor's, clerks', and prisoners' necessary offices are situated, also with the chief warder's dwelling; and whether the milk for prisoners is daily tested in these offices?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe General Prisons Board have called for a Report.
§ DR. TANNERI will put the question down for Thursday.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI cannot promise that I shall be able to answer it on that day.
§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on what medical grounds was Clonmel Prison selected by the Medical Officers to Prisons Board (Ireland) for prisoners transferred from Tullamore in consequence of the outbreak of typhoid fever; whether he is aware that Clonmel Prison is situated in the midst of a populous district in the town of Clonmel; 28 whether any cases of typhoid fever have been recently reported from that town; and whether the prison drainage passes directly into the River Suir, or is transmitted into the town sewers?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe General Prisons Board report that Clonmel Prison wasselected as being a very suitable prison, and especially as it possesses a block of buildings, at the time disused, but in excellent order, where the prisoners transferred from Tullamore could be kept isolated from the other prisoners. Clonmel Prison is situated in the town. The Prisons Board have no information as to reports of recent outbreaks of typhoid fever in the town. The prison drains open into the town sewer, but the excreta of the sick are mixed with disinfecting fluid and buried within the prison precincts.