§ Mr. Thurtleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he is aware that the Borstal prisoner, Arthur Clatworthy, was reported, at the inquest at Portland, to have died of a comparatively rare form of pernicious anaemia; and what that form was.
§ Mr. OliverI am informed that the medical term for the condition is agranulocytosis.
§ Mr. Thurtleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the Prison Commissioners held an inquiry into allegations of ill-treatment of Arthur 1493W Clatworthy at Wormwood Scrubs; when such an inquiry was held; and if any statement was taken from Clatworthy or from his parents for the purpose of this inquiry.
§ Mr. OliverWhen Mrs. Clatworthy, after visiting her son in October, reported that he had told her he had been ill-treated, a statement was taken from the son, and thereupon reports were called for from Wormwood Scrubs prison as to the incident which occurred in March. The full information then obtained made it clear that the allegation was unfounded.
§ Mr. Thurtleasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when Arthur Clatworthy was transferred from Wormwood Scrubs to Portland Borstal Institution; when he first became in need of medical attention there; and when he was transferred to Weymouth Hospital.
§ Mr. OliverClatworthy was transferred from Wormwood Scrubs Prison to Portland Borstal Institution on 17th May, 1945; he was first admitted to hospital on 13th July, but his symptoms subsided after treatment and he was discharged from the prison hospital on 23rd July. He was readmitted to the prison hospital on 27th August and was transferred to Weymouth Hospital on 24th September.