IT was said at one Committee meeting of the Fermanagh Tuberculosis Committee that The Impartial Reporter should not have access to the books and documents of the Committee and that in future those papers be not produced.

Our reply is that in future, we will publish particulars of every meeting of this committee until it be dissolved, and each half year we will have the books inspected, and a full report of all extravagances and irregularities, should such take place, reported.

WE REFUSE TO BE MUZZLED

The ratepayers of the county have no representative of their interests on this illegal Tuberculosis Committee with the exception of Mr. John Collum, H.M.L., Mr. Cahir Healy being forcibly absent.

Again we ask this week - Where is the Belleek nurse, for which the county pays £30 a year under this scheme?

We have made further inquiries and still have failed to locate her.

Such is the way business is carried on in the interests of the ratepayers.

We gladly give below Lord Belmore’s letter. It bears out what was stated in these columns last week that we had two paid officials and a committee of twelve (to look specially after about six midwives), and, as his lordship says, the business of this Midwives’ Committee is nil.

If the Unionist members on the Tuberculosis Committee realised for one moment that reason they were chosen by the late County Council to act on that and also on the Midwives’ Committee, they would resign within 24 hours.

Mr. E. M. Archdale has already resigned from the Tuberculosis Committee.

Let the remainder follow suit.