§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Local Government Board sanction the appointment of temporary nurses with only one year's training; if so, on what ground do the Board decline to recommend the Government to recoup the Shillelagh Guardians half the salary which they paid to nurse Young as a temporary nurse in the Shillelagh Union Hospital.
§ MR. ATKINSON (for Mr. G. W. Balfour)The Local Government Board, 1322 upon the requisition of the medical officer of the Shillelagh Workhouse, offered no objection to the employment, as a purely temporary measure, of a night nurse with only one year's training. But the Board refused to refund half the salary paid to a Miss Young, who had been employed temporarily in this capacity, until they received from her the necessary evidence of her qualifications, and this evidence Miss Young, though, applied to on the subject, has omitted to furnish.
§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland how many cases there are in the Shillelagh Workhouse Infirmary that require special treatment by a trained nurse; and is the number above the weekly average; and, if so, is the excess due to an increase in the number of influenza patients, or to any other cause.
§ MR. ATKINSON (for Mr. G. W. BALFOUR)I am informed there are at present forty-six patients in this workhouse hospital, and that of these twenty-two require special nursing. The number of sick now in the hospital is somewhat below the average.