§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Why, in the Report of the Directors of Convict Prisons for the year 1882–3, there is no Report furnished from the Chaplain of Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, as in the case of the other Convict Prisons; and, if he will state the number of prisoners of each religion now at Wormwood Scrubbs?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT,in reply, said, in the year 1882–3 the establishments of Millbank and Wormwood Scrubbs Prisons were worked together. There would, in future, be a separate Chaplain's Report. There were 501 Protestants 1342 and 439 Roman Catholic prisoners in the latter prison.