asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if he is aware that several cases of scarlatina and diphtheria have been refused admission in Tullow Hospital recently; that during the past seventeen or eighteen years such cases were admitted, and whether, seeing that great inconvenience is caused to the poor of Tullow and districts, he will take steps to have the present condition of affairs remedied.

I have not received any representations of the nature indicated in the first part of the question. In a communication addressed to the County Board of Health in November last I informed them that, in the opinion of my inspectors, all the fever cases of the county should be treated in the Central Fever Hospital at Carlow. I do not see that any great inconvenience would be caused if that suggestion has been put into operation.