DR. CAMERONasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether he has received a memorial from masters of British ships trading to Bilboa pointing-out the wretched nature of the hospital accommodation there available for sick and injured British seamen, and urging the establishment of a cottage hospital under British management; and, whether he will cause the British Consul at Bilboa to be consulted as to the feasibility of organizing such an institution?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAINSome representations have been received in favour of the establishment of a cottage hospital at Bilboa under British management. The British Consul, who has been Consul at Bilboa for 25 years, has been consulted, and states that no complaints from patients have reached him, and that he has frequently visited the hospital which already exists with medical officers of Her Majesty's Navy, who have expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with the management of the 1087 hospital and the treatment of the patients. I am happy to say that the number of British sailors requiring hospital accommodation at Bilboa is very small.