§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether the course of special instruction and ultimate examination, which is preposed "to be given better and at less expense" in India, will be afforded in each or in a selected Presidency; (2) what existing hospital or hospitals in India will be selected; (3) what will be the estimated cost of providing such selected teaching centre or centres with a 87 teaching staff, teaching plant, hygienic laboratory, and museum, &c., such as has been supplied at Netley; (4) whether, at present, India pays only her share of the cost of the Army Medical School, according to the number of men under tuition, the War Office being charged with the remainder; (5) whether the advice of Sir Joseph Fayrer, physician to the Council of India, has been asked on the proposed change; (6) whether future entrance examinations for the service in question will be conducted by the same staff and in the same place as heretofore; (7) whether the intended hypothetical economy will entail an immediate and continued increase of expenditure, and whether any corresponding advantage will be attained; and, (8) whether such expenditure is proposed to be imposed on the already overburdened taxpayers of India?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)The Questions (except 4 and 5) relate to matters upon which, as I informed the House on July 26, no decision has yet been arrived at. The answers to 4 and 5 are in the affirmative.