§ COLONEL COTTON (Cheshire, Wirral)asked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention had been called to a case of typhoid fever amongst the officers now quartered in the Gun Wharf Barracks, Portsmouth; whether these barracks had been for some years condemned as unfit for officers and soldiers to be quartered in; and whether he would investigate the case and take steps to have the sanitary arrangements amended?
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. E. STANHOPE, (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)Unfortunately it is not true that Lieutenant Desborough, R.A., has been removed from the Gun Wharf Barracks at Portsmouth suffering from typhoid fever. These barracks have never been condemned, but they are not in such a state of sanitary repair as modern ideas demand. -We will do what is immediately possible to remedy it. Some other barracks in the United Kingdom are in an equally bad condition, and the whole question of barracks has, for some time past, been receiving my most serious consideration. As I have already stated, I hope to make proposals to the House this Session dealing with the whole question.