§ MR. STEWART MACLIVERasked the Secretary of State for War, If his attention has been called to the increase of patients at the Naval and Military Hospitals at Stoke and Stonehouse (Devon); the number at the first place being 184 against 118, and, at the second, 100 against 45, as compared with ten weeks of the same period last year, when the Contagious Diseases Acts were in force; and, whether any steps will be taken by the Government to check the ravages of disease among our soldiers and sailors?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON, in reply, said lie had not yet had time to examine the statistics, they only having appeared on the Paper this morning; but he would reply to the Question on Monday.