§ MR. BOTTOMLEYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can state the number of persons at present confined in public lunatic asylums whose insanity is classified as due to religious excitement.
§ MR. HERBERT SAMUELThe Secretary of State is unable to say how many persons are at present confined in public lunatic asylums whose insanity is classified as due to religions excitement, but the yearly average number of patients admitted into county and borough 1243 asylums, registered hospitals, naval and military hospitals, state asylums, and licensed houses in England and Wales during the five years 1902 to 1906 whose insanity was stated to be due to this cause was 137 males and 197 females, making a total of 334.