CAPTAIN BOWEN-CO u RsT.
[To rue EMMA OF THE n SPECTAS03."3 gle,—YOC were kind enough to insert n letter of mine in your issue of September 22nd on the subject of my husband, Captain Bowen-Celther2t, now confined in Broadmoor Asylum. Will you forgive me for again intruding on your columns ? I have been teld by the Home Office, in answer to a letter of mine, that my husbend's latest medical report was a verbal one, and that in airy ease it was not the practice to disclose such reports. As it is tinted that the last report was " verbal," it is to be presumed (h•rt some. at any rate, of the previous reports were in writing and could not be shown. I cannot exprees any opinion as to
whether the " practice " of collect:ling reports is a desirable one or not, but I venture to think it is not applicable to my husband's ea.. et practice is only the usual course of procedure adopted in dealing with cases similar to one another. There is no other case of an officer of His Majesty's Army suffering from shell-shock end the effect of wounds being imprisoned in Broadmoor. The severe injuries he received render Iris state of health a matter of great concern to his family. In his present situation Ire receives nothing but official medical attention, and his family ere debarred from any knowledge of the opinion, regarding his health, of those who have charge of him. Cannot common humanity prevail ever misapplied official " practice " ?-1 am, Sir, de.,
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