MR. HANBURY (Preston)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the accommodation in the Guards' Hospital, at Rochester Row, Westminster, is sufficient to hold all the sick of the Guards, or is it the case that Guardsmen, ill with contagious diseases, are sent in considerable numbers by train to Military hospitals outside London; what is the number of such sick now so accommodated in outlying hospitals; and will stops be taken to secure a site at Millbank for a central military hospital for London?
* THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Stirling, &c.)The Guards' Hospital in Rochester Row has not sufficient accommodation for the sick of the brigade, and a site has been secured at Millbank for the erection of a hospital to accommodate all the sick of the garrison of London. At present it is necessary to send some of the sick to hospitals outside London; and 109 are at this time so provided for, of whom about 80 per cent. are in the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich. No patient suffering from an infectious disease is sent by train to any destination.