MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can state the total cost for the last financial year of the Naval Yard and Hospital at Jamaica; how many of Her Majesty's ships have used that yard during the year otherwise than for coaling alone; and how many men belonging to the Navy have been in the hospital for treatment during that time?
THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Sir U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH,) Lancashire, ClitheroeThe answers are:—First question: Yard, £8,689; Hospital, £3,460; total, £12,149. Second question: 6. Third question: 84 Naval patients, besides 15 from the Yard, &c, and 163 soldiers.