§ SIR BRAMPTON GURDON (Norfolk, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the discharge of a prisoner from Cambridge Gaol, there being at the time cases of smallpox within the gaol, although the prisoner had complained of illness the day before his discharge, and is now suffering from smallpox at Alysham, in Norfolk; and whether he will cause an inquiry to be held into the circumstances.
§ * MR. RITCHIEI have made inquiry, and find that the prisoner was discharged at the expiration of his sentence, and that he was visited, on the day before his discharge, by the medical officer, who observed no symptoms to lead him to suppose that he was suffering from incipient smallpox.
§ SIR BRAMPTON GURDONWill the right hon. Gentleman make further inquiries?
§ * MR. RITCHIEI can make no further inquiries, except of the medical officer who examined the man.