§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the copies sent to him of documents containing numerous specific allegations of public corruption on the part of named officials and managers of Park Prewett Mental Hospital; and whether, as the said officials and managers have taken no steps to answer these allegations, he will take steps to set up an open inquiry into the matter?
§ Mr. ElliotI have seen a document circulated by a former assistant medical officer of this hospital whose service was terminated in October, 1927. My predecessors have on a number of occasions refused to hold a public inquiry into the allegations made by this officer with regard to the administration of this hospital, and I fear it would be quite impossible for me to re-open the matter at this date.