§ MR. EDWARD M'HUGH (Armagh, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware, as President of the Local Government Board, that certain open drains in Armagh have boon allowed to remain a nuisance and a danger to the public health for many years; that the Poor Law Guardians decided that the responsibility lay with the Town Commissioners, whilst the latter threw it back on the Guardians; and that thus this nuisance is permitted to remain close to a large educational institution, causing blood poisoning and similar diseases; and, if so, what steps, if any, will be taken for the prompt abatement of this dangerous nuisance, so that the lives of those in the locality may not be further exposed?
MR. J. MORLEYThe Local Government Board have been informed by the Executive Sanitary Officer of the Armagh Union that the existence of the nuisance complained of having been recently brought under the notice of the Rural Sanitary Authority the necessary 1742 steps have been taken to abate the nuisance, and the work of cleaning the drain will be put in hand at once. It appears that the drain has been in good sanitary condition until a recent date.