§ CAPTAIN PIRIE (Aberdeen, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to the remarkable variations in the ratios of admissions into hospital from venereal diseases occurring between the various garrison towns in India, as revealed in the recent memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission and the Report of the Departmental Committee; and, whether, in view of the important bearing of these variations upon any proposals that may be made for checking these diseases, he will order an inquiry to be made into their cause or causes either in one or two selected cases or over the whole of the garrisons in India.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, Middlesex, Ealing)The hon. Gentleman will see from the Dispatch which will be in the hands of Members on Thursday morning that I have already directed the Government of India to institute an inquiry of the nature suggested.