§ MR. CLANCYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that, though the North Dublin Board of Guardians agreed to grant an increase of salary to the two medical officers of the North Dublin Dispensary district, the Local Government Board refused to sanction such increase; and whether he will state the reasons why the Board so refused, while sanctioning similar increases to the medical officers of the South Dublin Union.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe Board did not see its way to approve of the proposed increases of salary, as the salaries already paid to these gentlemen were larger than the average salaries paid in other districts throughout Ireland, and also £20 a year in excess of the salaries paid to medical officers in the South Dublin city districts. The effect of the increases since sanctioned in the salaries of the medical officers of the South Dublin Union has merely been to bring up the salaries of these officers to the same level as the salaries paid to their colleagues in the North Dublin Union.