§ MR. REMNANTTo ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the proposal of the Metropolitan Asylums Board to remove the improvable imbecile children back to the Darenth Asylum, where unimprovable children are retained; and, if so, what steps he proposes to take in the matter.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I have received from the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums District a proposal with regard to imbecile accommodation and classification at Darenth. Their proposal seems to be that the present schools should be used as a training school for improvable children; that the present adult asylum should be used as an industrial colony for improvable adults; and that the pavilions should be utilised for the quite unimprovable younger patients until such time as these buildings would be needed for the extension of the industrial colony. The Managers propose that the Brighton Load Schools at Sutton should be used for the accommodation of unimprovable imbeciles. It is necessary for me to obtain further information before I can form a definite opinion with regard to the proposal, and I am at present in communication with the Managers on the subject.