12 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE Was any proportion of this seven fold augmentation intended for compensation John M'Mullen, for the management of the Anna Liffey tax ?— Yes, 1501. v —/ Are you aware whether, since the cessation of the Anna LifFey tax, there has ( 1 May.) been any proportionate reduction in the emoluments of the secretary ?— No such reduction took place until Michaelmas term last year. When did that tax cease ?— In 1820. In a recent publication by the officers of the prisons, all mention of the emoluments of the treasurer and of the secretary to the grand jury, under the head of Anna Liffey and of Wide- street taxes is suppressed, although paid out of the grand jury cess. Has there been an increase in the salary of the inspector of prisons ?— There has been an increase, about a year ago, of 100 /. per annum. What was the salary of this office about the year 1790 ?— 100/. a year. To what was it afterwards raised?— To 300 /. At what is it at present fixed ?— It is now fixed at 4001. Independently of this salary, is there any other allowance paid by presentments of the grand jury?— Exclusive of this there is a further allowance to this officer of ,1 o I. yearly, for distributing bread. The Committee would wish to be informed respecting the expense of the medical officers and of the medicines, by the city of Dublin presentments; what was the levy under this head in the year 1771 ?— In the year 1771 the entire levy, under this head, was 20 guineas. What was it in 1790 ?— 298/. 16s. 3d. In 1801?— 518/. In 1811?— 870/. 7 s. id. In 1821 ?— 1,059/. 3 s- 11 d- Does this include salaries to the hospital keepers and nurses ?— It does not include the salaries of hospital keepers and nurses; in the last year the charge for medical attendance, medicines, nurses, hospital keepers and necessaries, appeared to me, from the most accurate calculations I could frame out of the presentment sheets, to be 1,414/; but by a recent statement, on the part of the officers of the prisons, who have access to all the accounts, it appears that the real amount in the last year, was 1,544/. 15 s. 7 d. Can you inform the Committee what the expenditure in medicines and salaries has been in Mercer's hospital, Dublin ?— In Mercer's hospital the expenditure in medicines and salaries, for the year 1820, was only 320/. What was the number of internal and external patients in 1820?— 516 internal, and 18,196 external Can you state what the^ salary of the physician was, at no very remote period ?— At no very remote period the salary was only ioo /. per annum ; it was recently raised to 300 /. and last year to 400 /. Are you aware what the physician of the Cork- street fever hospital is paid ?— In the Cork- street fever hospital, which is inconveniently situated, and where the duty is attended with great personal danger, the physician's salary is small. What is it?— The physicians who attend that hospital, according to recent regu- lations, serve the first four years gratuitously, the fifth year they receive 25 I. the sixth 50/. the seventh 75/. and the eighth 100/.; and according to the present regu- lations of the hospital, as soon as they have attained this maximum they must retire, to make way for others ; and so great is the anxiety of the physicians of Dublin for practice and consequent improvement, that the canvass, whenever a vacancy occurs, is extremely active, and the candidates numerous. Are you aware of what may have been the number of patients admitted in any one year to the Cork- street fever hospital ?— The number of patients admitted into the Cork- street fever hospital, in the year 1820, was 3,115. Can you inform the Committee what the salary in the year 1790 was, which was paid to the surgeon of the prisons in Dublin?— It was only 40/. What is it at present?— Two hundred guineas. Are you aware whether there are any important or laborious duties connected with the surgical department of the prisons?— I have reason to think there are no very laborious duties connected with the situation ; quite the contrary. Who is the apothecary of the prisons of Dublin?— The apothecary is Alexander Craven. Seeing the name of Craven as one of the sheriff's peers who has been in the habit ot serving upon the grand juries; can you inform the Committee whether that is the