§ MR. CONINGHAMsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for India Whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to act upon the recommendations of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the sanitary condition of the Army in India, and at once to introduce remedial measures for the prevention of disease in hot or unhealthy climates, so as promptly to check the mortality by which, "besides deaths from natural causes, sixty head per thousand of our troops annually perish in India"?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, that the attention of the Government of India had for some time past been directed to the subject, and several improvements had been effected in the sanitary condition of the Army. The Report of the Commission, however, had brought to light a rate of mortality which, before its publication, no one believed to exist. The attention of the Indian Government should be directed to the Report, and he had no doubt that measures would be taken to carry the recommendations of the Commission as far as possible into effect.