§ DR. THOMPSONTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of
†See (4) Debeates, cxxxvii.,1193.758 Ireland if, in view of the fact that Irish workhouses and workhouse hospitals are inspected by lay inspectors without any technical experience, and in view of the condition of the Irish workhouses as proved by the evidence given before the Viceregal Commission now sitting, he will direct the Local Government Board to so re-arrange the duties of its inspectors that these institutions shall be in the future inspected only by expert medical inspectors.(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) As already stated in reply to the hon. Member's previous Question of 12th instant,‡ the hospitals attached to workhouses are inspected by medical inspectors who have been specially appointed for the purposes. The workhouses are inspected by experienced lay inspectors who, in the Board's opinion, possess the necessary qualifications for the duty. Until the Report and evidence of the Viceregal Commission have been received no definite conclusions can be arrived at concerning the matters investigated by the Commission.