§ MR. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN (Kent, Faversham)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether he is aware that, in the case of accidents in Sheer-ness Dockyard, the patients are now conveyed to Chatham, whereby their 375 sufferings are increased, and their relations put to considerable expense in visiting them; and whether the Admiralty will adopt some scheme by arrangement with the Military Hospital or otherwise by which they can be received and treated at Sheerness?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)It has been the practice to send accident cases occurring in Sheerness Dockyard to the Royal Naval Hospital at Chatham for treatment when the nature of the injury admitted of their removal. Injuries of a nature to render removal undesirable would be treated locally at the dispensary of the Royal Naval Barracks of the Dockyard. Under these circumstances, it appears to be unnecessary to ask the Military Authorities to receive accident cases. Since January, 1887, there have only been three cases necessitating removal.