§ 13. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the twenty-eight criminal lunatics who were in 1917 conditionally discharged had been convicted for, or charged with, the capital offence; and how many of them had been in detention as criminal lunatics for less than eight months?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Brace)I find that twenty-six criminal lunatics, not twenty-eight, were conditionally discharged during 1917. The figure given to the hon. Member in August last included two lunatics who were discharged from one asylum for transfer to another. Of these twenty-six lunatics, fifteen had been charged with murder and found insane. None had been in detention for less than eight months.