§ CAPTAIN DONELANOn behalf of the honourable Member for the Mid Division of Cork County I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether it is proposed to take any steps to improve the local surroundings of the Queenstown, Cork Harbour, Hospital; if the cases of enteric fever that have occurred there, and of which the cause is alleged to be undiscovered, can have arisen from defective water supply; and if the Government will assist the local authorities in obtaining the best water supply available?
§ MR. BRODRICKNo complaint has been received either as to the local surroundings or the water supply of the Queenstown Hospital; only one case of enteric fever has occurred at Queenstown since January, 1896, and that was of an officer, and the disease was not attributed to defective water supply.