§ MR. O'DOHERTYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will consider the advisability of including the Londonderry City and County Infirmary in the list of those prescribed by the Local Government Board Order relating to trained nurses in workhouse infirmaries in Ireland, in order to provide that nurses trained in the said infirmary shall be eligible for appointments in workhouse infirmaries in the surrounding districts; and, having regard to the degrees held by the staff of the said infirmary, which consists of five visiting physicians and surgeons and one resident doctor, and to the ensuring thereby of efficiency of training for nurses, will he place the nurses trained in this infirmary on terms of equality with nurses trained in Belfast and Dublin.
§ MR. WYNDHAMOwing to the relatively small number of patients that can be treated at this hospital, the Local Government Board has not seen its way to recognise the training given there as sufficient to entitle its nurses to recoupment under the provisions of the 58th section of the Act of 1898. I will, however, give the whole subject my personal consideration during the recess.