§ MR. C. T. D. ACLAND (Cornwall, Launceston)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the annual grant towards the expenses of hospitals for contagious diseases in certain garrison towns has been withdrawn, and whether any other method of maintaining them is proposed; and, if not, what it is intended to substitute for these institutions; and, whether the managers of other hospitals have shown great unwillingness, or have entirely refused to admit cases of contagious disease?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)(who replied) said: Parliament will be asked to vote a sum of money in aid of beds in local civil hospitals affording accommodation for lock patients; and I am at present in communication with the authorities of certain garrison towns with a view to ascertain to what extent co-operation may be expected on their part. I believe that the managers of some hospitals have objected to admit patients of this class; but I have no positive knowledge on the subject.