ASYLUM PRISONERS.
AGITATION AT HOME. (by cable—press association copyright.) ("Arocs.") LONDON, March 2. The National Society for Lunacy Reform is petitioning Parliament to appoint a Royal Commission on the present laws dealing with insanity. A Labour member is moving an adjournment in the House of Commons on Monday on the same question.
A correspondent writes to the "Daily Chronicle," saying: "I was detained in a lunatic asylum for over three years, but escaped penniless during a thick fog in 1920, and began life afresh. Sdnoe then I have proved that the medical superintendent was absolutely wrong, when he repeatedly said that even if I were released I could ndt earni a living. I was a profitable patient. I was paid for out of my estate and more than earned my living by working at the asylum."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18013, 4 March 1924, Page 7
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