§ 58. Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to complaints with reference to public assistance at Stockton; that relief has been improperly given; that children have been improperly treated; that violence has been used to patients in the mental ward; and whether he will make inquiries as to these matters?
§ Mr. R. S. HUDSONThe attention of my right hon. Friend had not previously been called to the complaints referred to in the first and second parts of the question; but if my hon. Friend will send particulars of the matters which he has in mind, my right hon. Friend will cause inquiry to be made into them. As regards the third part of the question, my right hon. Friend has received a report on a case of alleged ill-treatment of a mental patient at the Stockton institution. The complaint has been investigated by a committee of the local authority, who have recommended the dismissal of two attendants employed at the institution.