HC Deb 27 July 1914 vol 65 cc911-2
28. Mr. HUNT

asked the Home Secretary whether a man, by name Humphries, adopted the hunger-strike at Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, and because he continued to refuse food was sent to the Bucks County Asylum; and whether, as he has been certified to be quite sane, he will now be released under the recent Act?

The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. McKenna)

The hon. Member has been misinformed. This man was transferred from prison to an asylum in pursuance of a certificate of insanity submitted by two magistrates and two registered medical practitioners under the Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884. He has not since been certified to be sane, but I am in communication with the Superintendent of the Bucks County Asylum on-the subject of his present condition.