HL Deb 09 February 1858 vol 148 c969
LORD PANMURE

laid upon the table the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded. The noble Lord said that the Report was a most voluminous one, but he trusted that their Lordships would not be deterred by that fact from giving it an attentive perusal The Report reflected the highest possible credit upon the Commissioners, and he could not allow that opportunity to pass without expressing his high sense of the merits of the document itself, as well as the obligation which he was under to those who had conducted the inquiry. His thanks were especially due to his right hon. Friend (Mr. Sydney Herbert), who presided over the Commission, and he was glad to have that opportunity of bearing his testimony to the diligent, painstaking, and admirable manner in which he and the other Commissioners had fulfilled the important duty entrusted to them by the Crown.