§ MR. MURNAGHAN (Tyrone, Mid)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the reason and by whose authority the change has recently been made of the water supply to the residence of the resident medical superintendent of the Omagh Lunatic Asylum; whether the change will necessitate an additional operation of steam, etc., or is the water to be stored in the tanks that supply the institution; and, if the residence of the resident medical superintendent is no longer supplied with water from these tanks, will instructions be given to inspectors to carefully examine the state of the tanks and the quality of the water, in view of the report of the sanitary expert as to the cause of the recent outbreak of typhoid fever?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe change referred to in the first paragraph was authorised by the board of control on the application of the resident medical superintendent of the asylum. The reply to the second paragraph is in the negative. An analysis of the existing water supply shows the water to be good and potable.