HC Deb 02 August 1875 vol 226 cc378-9
MR CAWLEY (for Mr. HOLT)

asked the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he is in possession of any information sufficient to furnish the details required in the Motion for a Return of the number of deaths in Monastic and Conventual Institutions in Great Britain which has recently been on the Paper?

SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSON

, in reply, said, he was not in a position to give sufficient information, or to furnish a Return upon the subject referred to by the hon. Member. No specific Report as to the deaths in question was to be found in the Registrar General's Office, and, although the Census Paper mentioned the principal public institutions, it was impossible to determine which of them were those referred to, or to say whether St. Elizabeth's Home, St. James's Home, or St. Joseph's Home were Monastic or Con- ventual Protestant or Roman Catholic Institutions.