§ MR. P. A. TAYLORasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he is aware that some uncertainty and consequent anxiety exists in regard to the Law and practice of holding post mortem examinations upon the bodies of persons dying in lunatic asylums; and, if he would consider the desirability of issuing some authoritative memorandum indicating the conditions on which such examinations are by Law enforced or permitted?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, he had been in communication with the Lunacy Commissioners on the subject, and they had informed him that their opinion with respect to it was very strongly expressed in a Report which they had presented in 1870, and also 743 in the evidence given by Lord Shaftesbury before the Select Committee of that House last Session. If, after looking at that Report and the evidence, the hon. Gentleman wished to put any further Questions, he should be happy to make additional inquiries.