§ 56. Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the dissatisfaction being expressed by boards of guardians as to the Circular Letter recently sent out by his Department, calling attention to the Lunacy Act of 1892, which allows of the detention of a person in the workhouse, under certain circumstances, who has been discharged as not recovered from an asylum; and whether, in view of the danger to the inmates of Poor Law institutions, he will consider the advisability of new mental hospitals being built, instead of lunatics being housed with normal old people?
§ Sir K. WOODMy right hon. Friend is not aware that this Circular Letter, of which he is sending the hon. Member a copy, has caused any dissatisfaction. The Circular does not contemplate, and my right hon. Friend has no intention of allowing, the housing of lunatics, even if they are of the class to which the letter refers, in the same premises as normal old people.