§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary for Scotland, having regard to the fact that the recently issued Report of the Com missioners in Lunacy for Scotland, shows at Chapter XVI. that the local authorities in the Island of Lewis have made representations in regard to the heavy burden imposed upon the rates by pauper lunacy, will he state how he proposes to meet these representations, especially bearing in mind that the proposal to accommodate harmless lunatics in the poorhouses at Stornoway did not commend itself to the chairman and the two medical Commissioners when they visited the poorhouse.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) Accommodation of harmless lunatics in the poor-house at Stornoway has not been rejected in principle by the Board of Lunacy. The proposal suggested by the Committee of the Lewis combination would not have provided for a sufficient number of patients to justify the institution of lunatic wards. If the proposal is amended so as to increase the accommodation the matter is still open to consideration.