§ MR. WILES (Islington, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, having regard to the fact that the quantity of beer annually brewed in the private brewery attached to the Three Counties Asylum, at Arlesey, has been reduced during the last two years from 32,800 gallons to 17,600 gallons, he will say if he has any official reports showing what the effect has been upon the health of the patients or the staff of this reduction in the consumption of liquor; and, if so, whether he will state their purport to the House.
§ MR. GLADSTONEThere is no official report showing what the effect of the reduction in the consumption of beer has been on the health of the patients or the staff at the Three Counties Asylum, but the Commissioners in Lunacy have made inquiry of the Medical Superintendent, who replies that there has been no apparent effect on health.