§ COLONEL COLTHURSTasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to take action with respect to the better treatment and disposal of lunatics in Workhouses, in accordance with the recommendation of the Commission appointed in 1878?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Poor Laws Union and Lunacy Inquiry Commission recommended that the administration of the whole pauper lunacy in Ireland should be placed under a Department of the Local Government Board. That Report was made to the late Government as far back as the beginning of 1879, and the questions with which it deals are so extensive that I am not prepared at present to pledge the Government to any course of procedure on the matter. I will, however, look into it further on my return to Ireland.