§ COLONEL FRENCHsaid, he rose to move for an Address for a Copy of all Correspondence between Government and the Medical Men or Officers in the command of Regiments stationed at Aldershot, 983 Shorncliffe, and Colchester, as to the impolicy and hardship of keeping in Wooden Huts during this severe winter old rheumatic soldiers from hot climates and young recruits. These huts were neither air-tight nor water-tight, and he had it from an officer that he woke one morning and found his head covered with snow. During the winter the men suffered very severely. The Secretary for War had not only promised that the subject should receive immediate consideration, but had led them to believe that the men should not remain in the huts during the winter; but they had been completely disappointed, and if the Government did not redress the evil, he should feel it his duty to bring the subject before the House.
§ SIR HARRY VERNEYthought this was one of those evils which tended to make the service unpopular, and hoped that, in the event of the Secretary for War not dispensing with the use of the huts in the winter, the hon. and gallant Member would persevere in taking the sense of the House upon the question.
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Motion agreed to.
Address for "Copy of all Correspondence between Government and the Medical Men or Officers in the command of Regiments stationed at Aldershot, Shorncliffe, and Colchester, as to the impolicy and hardship of keeping in Wooden Huts, during this severe winter, old rheumatic soldiers from hot climates and young recruits."—(Colonel French.)