DR. FARQUHARSON (Aberdeenshire, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary 231 of State for War whether, in view of the serious amount of typhoid fever and other-severe ailments among English troops in India, and the absence of any trained nursing corps of orderlies, he will consider the advisability of sending detachments of the Medical Staff Corps to India?
* MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANIt is for the Secretary of State for India to consider whether the Medical Staff Corps should be introduced into India. The expense would be great, and this element in the question would, no doubt, greatly influence the views of the Government of India. In India there are now a native Army Hospital Corps and a highly-trained body of lady nurses, who are available for typhoid fever and other severe ailments.