§ MR. COX (Clare, E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he will lay upon the Table a Return showing the names, ages, salaries, and emoluments of the chief officers of Lunatic Asylums in Ireland; the ages, salaries, and emoluments of the Inspectors of Lunatics in Ireland, together with the total number of lunatics to be inspected by them, and the number of institutions in which such lunatics are domiciled, and a similar Return for England; and, if he can state what are the existing guarantees or cheeks for the efficiency of such inspection or supervision in Ireland, seeing that the Inspectors, as Commissioners, are themselves the heads of the Lunacy Department in Ireland?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne), in reply, said, that in the admirable Report issued by the Inspectors of Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, in 1882, the hon. Member would find the information referred to in the first part of the Question. The number of inmates and a Return of the salaries, emoluments, &c, could be given if the hon. Member 1632 would move for it. There were no Commissioners of Lunacy in Ireland, the Inspectors being the persons responsible to the Government, to whom they report; the internal control of the asylums was in the hands of the local Boards of Governors. As to the question of management in England, he must refer the hon. Member to the Home Secretary.