HC Deb 22 February 1884 vol 284 c1717
SIR HARRY VERNEY

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, in the field hospitals detailed for service in the approaching campaign, any increase of the Army Hospital Corps Staff would be made, for the purpose of providing washermen, sanitary police, watermen, and other subsidiary services of the hospital, of which the want was so much felt in the Egyptian campaign?

THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON

The arrangements for equipping the Medical Service of the Expedition to Suakim have been made locally, and Reports as to details have not yet been received. The Army Hospital Corps in Egypt has been reinforced by a detachment of 50 non-commissioned officers and men.