§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he can give the total number of blind in Ireland according to the last census, the number of blind of each sex, and the number of blind of each sex in Irish workhouses and other institutions.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe General Report on the recent census has not yet been completed, but so far as can at present be ascertained there were 4,241 persons totally blind in Ireland on the 31st March—2,106 males and 2,135 females—a reduction of 1,100 as compared with the year 1891;320 males and 447 females were inmates of workhouses, and 134 males and 220 females were inmates of institutions for the blind.