Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Mental Illness, Government

    Discusses William C Spring-Rice's reply to Punch's criticism of his actions in regard to the inadequacy of provision for lunatics on the Isle of Man (see PU1/46/8/4). Spring-Rice claims that the Commissioners in Lunacy drew George Grey's attention to the problem in November 1861, much earlier than Punch had suggested. Punch thinks this response calls for an apology to Grey because the implication that the Isle of Man lunatics are in the same condition now as they were in late 1861 makes Rice's claims 'a joke' at Grey's expense.