§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India if his attention has been drawn to the Indian Medical Record Calcutta, 1st April, 1892, page 129, second column, which contains the 546 following extract from the Presidential Address of Deputy Surgeon General C. Sibthorpe, Indian Medical Service, to the Burma Branch of the British Medical Association:—
Dr. Donelly says close on 6,000 (six thousand) persons passed through the General Hospital, native troops and followers—only 400 (four hundred) recovered to return to their duties in the field. The condition of their followers is described as being deplorable, and this was not always duo to malaria or actual disease, but was in a great measure produced by a want of food suitable for persons no longer in robust health";and whether he will give the matter his serious attention?
MR. CURZONThe Secretary of State has not seen the paper referred to, but he will send a despatch on the subject to the Government of India.