§ CAPTAIN PIRIEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India what steps, if any, have been taken to carry out the urgent recommendation of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government in India, in his Report for 1894, which is also quoted with approval in the Report on Sanitary Measures in India in 1894–95, that much might be done to diminish the extent and severity of contagious diseases among the British troops in India by providing increased facilities for bathing with comfort and convenience 752 in private and public baths, and by inculcating habits of personal cleanliness among the troops?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, Middlesex, Ealing)I have received no special Report on the action taken on the representations made by the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India in 1894, but I understand that, in the opinion of the military authorities, ample provision is made for supplying British soldiers in India with the means of personal cleanliness. The importance of the matter is so well understood that it seems unnecessary to call for any special Report.