§ MR. DAVITTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Parsee Feroze, now an inmate of a lunatic asylum, was certified as being of sound mind on his reception at Wormwood Scrubbs Prison in November, 1892; whether he underwent several prison punishments while in that prison; what were the exact number and the nature of these punishments; how often was he punished while in Parkhurst Prison; and how many punishments of all kinds did this man undergo from the time of his sentence until he was certified as insane in 1895?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTThe answer to the first two paragraphs is in the affirmative; the answer to the third. 13, of which two were by birching and the remainder dietary. The answer to the fourth 12, all of which were dietary. No doubts as to his sanity arose until he had been some time at Parkhurst; he was then immediately placed under observation and treatment in hospital, where he remained until he was certified insane. The prisoner's insanity was traceable to a definite cause, which was not imprisonment.