§ MR. WILLIAM CORBETI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the number of murders as reported in the Press, committed during the present year followed by the suicide or attempt at suicide of the persons who committed the acts; and are any records kept from which statistical information as to the murders, homicides, and suicides, committed by lunatics, and not included in the Judicial Statistics, such as the tables given for 1885, p. 81, can be obtained; and if so, will he lay a Return on the Table.
§ MR. MATTHEWSI am informed by the Lunacy Commissioners that the number of suicides in institutions for the insane amongst single patients is returned by them in Appendix B2 of their 43rd Report, and has been given in former years; but that they know of no record (other than the Judicial Statistics), of homicides and suicides by lunatics not under care and control.