§ Mr. DAYasked the Secretary of State for Scotland the number of lunatics in county and borough asylums, hospitals, or licensed houses at the last convenient date?
§ Sir J. GILMOURThe total number of lunatics in Scotland at 1st January, 1929, is as follows:
In Royal Asylums 3,616 In District Asylums 12,515 In Parochial Asylum 241 In Private Asylums 42 In Lunatic Wards of Poorhouses 880 17,294 Under care in private dwellings, including specially licensed houses 1,623 Total 18,917 There were in addition to the foregoing certified and registered lunatics, 909 patients in residence in the respective institutions at 1st January, 1929, on a voluntary basis, and there were also 73 inmates of the Criminal Lunatic Department of His Majesty's Prison at Perth.