§ MR. CHARLES CRAIG (Antrim, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the medical officer of health in Galway, at the instance of the Local Government Board, made a report with reference to the condition of the Forthill burial ground, Galway, and as to whether further burials should be prohibited therein; what did that report recommend and what steps, if any, have been taken to carry out the said recommendations.
§ MR. CHERRYYes, Sir; and the medical officer of health reported that in his opinion there was not sufficient space for opening new graves. The Urban District Council, however, informed the Local Government Board that no new 827 graves have been opened in this graveyard for some years past and that interments are limited to the case of persons whose grave spaces and vaults have been reserved owing to their having possessed rights of interment therein. In these circumstances, the Local Government Board have taken no further action in the matter.