§ MR. WEGUELINsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary for War, whether the Government have appointed a Committee to investigate the Report made by the Barrack and Hospital Commissioners upon Netley Hospital; and if so, whether they are prepared to present to the House the Report of this Committee at the same time as they lay the Report of the Barrack Commissioners upon the table of the House.
§ MR. TITEPerhaps the right hon. and gallant Gentleman would state at the same time whether the works are suspended or not; and if there are any objections to placing in the library of this House the last plans upon which the erection of the Hospital was proceeding.
GENERAL PEELsaid, he was extremely sorry to say that there were contradictory Reports upon the subject. One Report condemned the site, the construction of the Hospital, and everything connected with it. That Report he had submitted to the Committee begging them to make what remarks they might think proper upon it, and they had formally reported accordingly. The first recommendation they made was that a Board of Medical Officers should be sent down for the purpose of giving an opinion with regard to the site, the construction, and the other matters connected with it; and in the absence of his right hon. Friend (Mr. S. Herbert), who had taken a deep interest in the question, he had thought proper to submit to him a list of eminent medical men to whom he proposed to entrust the duty. He had not, however, received an answer from his right hon. Friend; but the instant he did so, he should send down the Medical Board to investigate the matter and make a Report, In answer to the question of the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Tito), he begged to state that the works had for the present been suspended, and that there was no objection to supply the plans to the library.