§ 53. Viscount WOLMERasked the Home Secretary how many patients were forcibly fed in lunatic asylums during 1912; and what was the maximum number of times that any one patient was forcibly fed?
Mr. MIKENNAI have not this information. To obtain it would necessitate addressing inquiries to all asylums.
§ Viscount WOLMERIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that forcible feeding of lunatics is quite as dangerous as it is to prisoners, and does he not think that it is a matter which should receive the attention of the Home Office?
§ Mr. PRINGLEIs it not the fact that until suffragettes were forcibly fed nobody suggested that forcible feeding was not a humane method?