§ Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINasked the Home Secretary how many county and county borough councils, local education committees, asylum committees, urban district councils, and boards of guardians have sent resolutions to the various Government Departments or Cabinet Ministers asking for further legislation for the care, protection, and control of the mentally defective and the feeble-minded?
Mr. ELLIS GRIFFTHResolutions in favour of legislation on the lines of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Feeble-minded have been received at the Home Office from fourteen county councils, forty-four borough councils, 110 education committees, six urban district councils, and 280 boards of guardians. Many of these bodies have sent in more than one resolution on the subject, and the total number of resolutions in favour of legislation received at the Home Office is about 800. I cannot say how many resolutions have been received by other Government Departments or Cabinet Ministers.