§ MR. CLANCYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been directed to the increase in the numbers admitted to lunatic asylums in Ireland and in the consequent expenditure, for buildings and maintenance, in those institutions; whether he has come to any conclusions as regards the suggestions made to him by the deputation of medical men which recently waited upon him in reference to that subject; and if he has considered the question whether the 70 cost of the maintenance and treatment of the maintenance and treatment of the insane ought to be made a State charge.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe answer to the first paragraph is in the affirmative. The object of the deputation referred to in the second paragraph was the establishment of a central pathological laboratory. In reply to the last paragraph, I would prefer to wait for the Report of the Royal Commission on Local Taxation before expressing a final opinion on the subject.