§ MR. NORRIS (Tower Hamlets, Limehouse)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether any further information has reacted him as to the sanitary condition of the barracks at Dover, contradictory of the statement contained in the Report of the Principal Medical Officer there and the Commanding Officer of the Royal Engineers, quoted by him on 8th February last, "that they had failed to discover any insanitary conditions;" whether the death of another young officer, Mr. Keegan, and the illness of a private soldier, are attributable to typhoid fever, contracted in the barracks; and, if so, whether he will cause immediate and searching inquiry to be made into all the facts of these cases, which follow so closely on the death of Lieutenant Jarrett, of the Buffs, from the same disease; and, if he will state whether complaints have reached him as to the insanitary condition of other barracks.
§ THE SECRETAEY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)According to a report received this morning, careful investigation has failed to discover in Fort Burgoyne, where these cases of enteric fever unfortunately occurred, any insanitary conditions which will account for the disease; but a further minute inspection shall be made, and steps taken to remove immediately every possible source of disease to which any suspicion can attach. In answer to the third Question, we have received complaints from other barracks also; and we shall in every case, if the complaint appears to be well-founded, remedy it with the least possible delay.