§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the death of Charles Joseph Smart in the Middlesex County Asylum; and, if so, will he state whether this man was just before his death placed in a strait-jacket without the doctor's orders, and whether inquiries will be made into the whole matter.
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. AKERS DOUGLAS,) Kent, St. Augustine'sThis man died on the day after he was received in the asylum, to which he had been removed in a strait waistcoat from the Isleworth Workhouse. I understand that the latter part of the Question is being made the subject of inquiry by my right hon. friend the President of the Local Government Board.
§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDIs it not only unusual but improper to put a patient into a strait-jacket without the doctor's orders?
§ *MR. AKERS DOUGLASThat Question should be addressed to the Local Government Board. This case only came under my notice when the patient was brought into the asylum from the workhouse.