§ MR. A. C. MORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether there is any field hospital equipment available for the training of medical officers in the following garrisons — Portsmouth, Plymouth, Dover, Woolwich, York, Colchester, Edinburgh, Dublin, the Curragh; whether, apart from the medical corps depot at Alder-shot, I here are any facilities given to the Medical Officers in garrison there for practice in field duties; and whether the Army Medical Officers have sufficient powers to efficiently carry out their duties to the sick and wounded in the field?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANAt the stations named the necessary articles of field equipment are in store for purposes of mobilisation; but, as at present arranged, they are not available for purposes of instruction, except at the 467 Curragh, where half the establishment of a field hospital can be so used. As yet, the depôt at Aldershot is the only school for the instruction of Medical Officers in field duties; but, as I informed the hon. Member on the 4th instant, it is intended to give additional opportunities for this training. I believe the Medical Officers have ample powers for carrying out all their duties.