HC Deb 18 December 1958 vol 597 cc329-30W
Mr. Dodds

asked the Minister of Health what has been the response to the approach by the London County Council for the provision of residential homes or hostels where mental defectives and sub-normal patients now in mental

intendents of mental hospitals suggesting that, if they had not already done so, they should exercise their statutory discretion to open out-going letters from patients only where they had cause to think that the contents might be offensive to the recipients. Amendment of the law relating to the censorship of patients' correspondence is being considered in connection with the proposed new mental health legislation.