§ MR. WOLFFI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a petition has been presented by the men stationed at the police barracks, Musgrave Street, Belfast, to the Inspector General, requesting that some notice be taken of the sanitary condition of the barracks, and that several men are laid up with illness in consequence of the defective sanitary conditions, and two men have died of typhoid fever since Christmas; and whether he will take the necessary steps to put the sanitary condition of the barracks in proper order?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI am informed that such a petition has been received from the police stationed at this barrack. It is true that two of the men have died of typhoid fever since Christmas last, but there is no case at present of serious illness connected with the station. The medical and sanitary officers are now inquiring into the sanitary condition of the barrack, and the attention of the Board of Works has also been directed to the matter.