§ MR. PICKERSGILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce into the draft Prison Rules the following rule, now in force in the prisons of Scotland: "The governor shall without delay report to the Commissioners and to the Visiting Committee, and to the Commissioners in Lunacy, any case of insanity or apparent insanity occurring among the prisoners"?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTThe governor is already required to report these cases to the Commissioners. The Report, however, to the Lunacy Commissioners, which is necessary in Scotland, where criminal lunatics are kept in a separate department of a prison under the jurisdiction of the Prison Commissioners, is not necessary in England, where they are immediately removed to an asylum on being certified insane.