§ Mr. D. GRENFELLasked the Minister of Health if he will issue a regulation with a view to acquainting the public with their rights under the Lunacy Act, 1890, that Section 79 should be posted up in all waiting-rooms where friends come to visit the inmates of mental institutions in order that the patient's friends, as distinct from his relatives, may know that it is in their power to apply to the visiting committee for the patient's discharge to their care?
Sir H. YOUNGThere are objections to a regulation of the kind suggested. I am advised that the situation is adequately met by the existing rule which requires the managers of every institution, on the admission of every rate-aided person, to send a notice, embodying the1918W substance of Section 79 of the Lunacy Act, to all persons whose names appear as relatives or friends of the patient on the statement of particulars accompanying the reception order.