COLONEL LOCKWOODI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, whether he is in possession of facts confirming a statement from the Calcutta correspondent, which appeared in The Times of 18th March, that more than 3,000 British soldiers are constantly in hospital from venereal disease; that the rate of admission to hospital from that cause had risen in 1895 to 511 per 1,000; and that 1592 out of a force of 70,000 men only 26,000 had not suffered from it; and whether the Commander-in-Chief in India has made any representation on the subject?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordThe figures quoted in the Question are substantially accurate. The Question has been the subject of representations at intervals by successive Commanders-in-Chief in India.