§ MR. PROVAND (Glasgow. Blackfriars, &c.)asked the Lord Advocate, If his attention has been drawn to the report in The North British Daily Mail of Monday last, that an infant 10 months old, which was taken to Duke Street Prison, in Glasgow, on Wednesday the 21st instant, with its mother, Mrs. M'Kenzie, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment, had been stripped, bathed in cold water, and put into prison clothes; and, if true, under what Rule was this infant so treated?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. P. B. ROBERTSON) (Bute)The child was not bathed in cold water, but in warm water, the temperature being about 100 degrees. The child was supplied with the clothing provided under Instruction 541, Scale 5, of the Rules for prisons in Scotland. These clothes are prison clothes only in the sense of being the property of the Prison Commissioners, and are such as are ordinarily worn by children of the working class.