§ 7. Mr. JOELasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons now incarcerated in Broad-moor have never been convicted by a jury of any offence but have been sent to this place of detention on purely medical grounds?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Oliver Stanley)312 persons at present detained in Broadmoor were found by juries to be insane upon arraignment and therefore were not put upon their trial; 39 other persons were certified insane while awaiting trial or upon remand and were removed to Broadmoor.