§ MR. T. G. ASHTON (Beds, Luton)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board, whether he has caused inquiry to be made into the question of extending the 4s. grant per week for lunatics, now given to lunatic asylums, to workhouses; and, if so, whether he is prepared to recommend that that grant should be paid for lunatics in workhouses who have been treated in asylums and discharged to workhouses as incurable?
§ MR. CHAPLINI have received a large number of communications on this subject, and have given careful consideration to it. Nothing, however, could be done in the matter without an alteration of the Law, and I am not in a position to propose legislation with regard to it at present.