MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any regular inspection regarding the management of private lunatic asylums and their inmates is made and reported on by responsible Government officials; and, whether the system and working of private lunatic asylums will be inquired into and reported to the House?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYAll licensed houses are regularly visited by the Lunacy Commissioners, those in the metropolitan area six times a year, those outside that area twice. The latter are also visited six times a year by three justices and a medical practitioner appointed for that purpose by Quarter Sessions. I am not aware of any necessity for such an inquiry as the hon. Member suggests.