§ 59. Mr. van Straubenzeeasked the Minister of Health whether he will now make a statement on the strengthening of the security arrangements at Broad-moor Hospital consequent upon the escape of Anthony Amis on 24th October.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonAmis escaped because he was able to conceal himself in the outside courts when other patients were called in for the day, because he was not then missed, and because he used part of a wooden shelter bench to surmount two walls. A new procedure for clearing the courts has been introduced, the interval between evening counts of patient has been shortened, and all shelter benches in the courts have been removed.