§ LIEUTENANT-COLONEL TUFNELL (Essex, S.E.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that alien lunatics are landed at Tilbury Docks and have become a charge on the guardians of the Orsett Union; and will he state whether he can take any steps in the matter 257 (Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I have made inquiry on this point, and am informed by the Clerk to the Orsett Guardians that there has been one alien lunatic landed at Tilbury Docks during the last six years. It is stated, however, that during this period seventeen other lunatics have been landed there, none of whom were chargeable to the Orsett Union. I understand that these cases have been adjudicated to the county or to other unions, or have recovered and been discharged before steps could be taken for this purpose. In all these cases the Guardians incurred some expense, which, as the Law stands, they do not appear to have been able to recover. I am not empowered to take any action in the matter.