§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Lord Advocate, seeing that in the West House of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum there are 142 patients in excess of the number 1086 which the building was designed to accommodate, and in view of the outbreak of dysentery, will arrangements be made to secure temporary premises for the accommodation of the surplus patients pending the erection of Bangour Asylum.
(Answered by Mr. A. Graham Murray.) I am informed that as many patients as accommodation could be provided for have been removed as boarders to other asylums, and that the new asylum buildings will be ready within as short a time as would be required for the acquisition; and adaptation of temporary premises.