§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Tulla Board of Guardians were surcharged for sending patients who were inmates to Dublin for medical treatment; 404 and, whether it is necessary that an inmate should be a certain time, and, if so, what length of time, in a union workhouse before being sent to Dublin for medical treatment?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe auditor held that the patients, whose expenses in Dublin hospitals he surcharged, were not bonâ fide inmates of the workhouse, their names having been merely entered on the workhouse books as a preliminary to sending them for special treatment to Dublin. The Act dealing with this matter is the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1862. No particular length of time in a workhouse is specified in the Act as necessary to qualify an inmate for transmission to a special hospital. All that is necessary is that such persons should be bonâ fide inmates at the time they are sent.