§ Mr. IRVINGasked the President of the Local Government Board if he has received a resolution passed by the Burnley Borough Council to the effect that the council support the following resolution passed at a special meeting of the Lancashire Asylums Board on 30th January, 1919, advocating an alteration of the existing method of dealing with cases of incipient insanity, that neither the word "lunatic" nor the words "pauper lunatic" should any longer be used, that the Poor Law connection with pauper lunatics should be discontinued, that local authorities should be empowered to set up and maintain psychiatric hospitals wherein patients could be treated for mental disease without being certified, and suggesting that the introduction of the Ministry of Health Bill affords an opportunity of carrying out those suggestions, and whether he will favourably consider taking action in the direction recommended?
§ Dr. ADDISONI have received a copy of the resolution referred to, and as I stated in reply to a question on the same subject on the 27th February last, the 2269W whole matter will be reviewed with cognate questions in connection with the establishment of the Ministry of Health.