Mr. ALFRED T. DAVIESasked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the continued increase in the cost of lunatic patients chargeable to the board of guardians and maintained in the lunatic asylums, he is prepared to reduce the heavy burden on local rates; and whether he will introduce an Amending Bill to the Local Government Act, 1888, to provide for repayment to boards of guardians of at least half the actual cost to thorn of every lunatic patient maintained in a county asylum, with that object?
§ Dr. ADDISONI can only refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to a similar question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. T. Davies) on the 1st instant.