§ MR. SLOANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a child was born in Belfast Infirmary on 10th 464 February, and received medical treatment by the dispensary doctor from March until it died on 9th April; and can he state on what grounds the doctor refused certificate of death for the burial of the child for three days.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe last occasion on which the dispensary doctor examined the child was the 1st April. He refused to certify the cause of death on 9th April since he had not seen the child in the interval. The ailment from which it suffered on 1st April could not have been the cause of death. The doctor reported the facts to the Registrar General, who informed him that his action was correct.