§ MR. SAMUEL YOUNG (Cavan, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Workhouse Commission, when going into the question of utilising some of the workhouses as auxiliary asylums, will inquire into the apparent increase in lunacy and the accommodation and management of lunatic asylums; whether, if an inquiry into the increase of lunacy is not within the scope of the Workhouse Commission, he will extend the scope to supply the desired accurate information on the subject; and will he say whether the Inspectors of Lunacy have recommended that such an inquiry should not be held.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The Commission will inquire into the classification and treatment of the insane who are relieved from the poor rates in workhouses, but will not investigate the question of the accommodation and management of district lunatic asylums; nor will it inquire into the general question 1055 of the increase in lunacy. In reply to the concluding inquiry, any communications that may have passed between the Government and the inspectors of lunatics on the subject of the Commission are confidential.