§ MAJOR ANSTRUTHER-GRAY (St. Andrews Burghs)To ask the Lord Advocate whether a dangerous patient in a district lunatic asylum may be discharged and handed over to relatives relieved but not cured; and, in that case, whether the lunacy authorities have no further charge or responsibility.
§ MAJOR ANSTRUTHER-GRAYTo ask the Lord Advocate whether he will consider the advisability of taking the necessary steps to ensure that all cases of dangerous lunatics who have committed assault resulting in loss of life should be dealt with in a criminal lunatic asylum instead of relegating them to a district asylum.
§ MAJOR ANSTRUTHER-GRAYTo ask the Lord Advocate whether, seeing that the presence of criminal lunatics who have committed murder is detrimental to the general freedom from severe discipline in district asylums, the beneficial effect of what is termed the open door system being acknowledged, he will take the necessary steps to keep the district asylums free from criminal lunatics who have committed murder, or attempted murder, as far as possible.
§ (Answered by Mr. Thomas Shaw.) The question raised in this and the two subsequent Questions is under inquiry, and I must ask the hon. Member to recur to the matter at a later date when I shall endeavour to answer.