MR. ENGLEDEW (Kildare, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the number of married officers and attendants who reside with their wives in each of the district lunatic asylums in Ireland, and the number so residing in the Carlow District Asylum?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralThere is no official record containing the information desired in the Question. It rests with the Board of Governors of an asylum to determine whether the wife of an officer should be permitted to reside in the institution, and the inspectors of lunatics have not interfered with the discretion vested in the governors, except in one or two cases where they have remonstrated with the governors for permitting the wife or family of an officer to occupy accommodation which might have been given up to the asylum patients. Under the circumstances, I do net see that any useful object would be gained by calling for the information from boards of governors.