§ DR. KENNY (Dublin, College, Green)I beg to ask the Secretary of State, for the Home Department, if, in view of the magnitude of the annual increase in the number of lunatics, as shown in Parliamentary Paper, No. 434,Session 2, issued during the Recess, he will take measures to promote an International Commission of Inquiry into the subject of the general increase of insanity, with the object of devising means to arrest its progress?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYI have considered this question in accordance with the promise I made to the hon. Member in August last, but I have no evidence on the subject in my possession which leads me, to think that any practical results would follow from the appointment of an International Commission.