§ Mr. Bryan Gould (Southampton, Test)With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to present a petition on behalf of the Southampton and Portsmouth chapter of the Citizens Commission for Human Rights.
The Commission is concerned with the practice of psychosurgery and the petition includes 2,000 signatures. The signatories are concerned about what they see as the damage caused by the practice of psychosurgery and by the growing volume of medical opinion which casts doubt upon its efficacy and morality. The petition says:
wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that this honourable House will halt the use of experimental brain and psychosurgery on the National Health Service and suspend a decision on further experimentation on mental patients and establish a commission to investigate and report on the past and present use of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom.
§ To lie upon the Table.