§ GENERAL SHUTEasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, in reference to the recent death of a Captain in the 16th Lancers, he has directed an inquiry to be made into the sanitary state of the new Officers' Quarters in Preston Barracks, Brighton, as regards ventilation, drainage, and water supply; and, if so, with what result?
§ COLONEL STANLEY,in reply, said, that inquiries had been made by the War Office, and the Report received from the medical officers was that the 690 sanitary condition of the officers' quarters was very good; but that there were some slight defects which were being remedied.