§ MR. JAMES STUART (Shoreditch, Hoxton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that the United Presbyterian Missionary Society has for 25 years rented a Government building at Nusseerabad as a mission hospital; whether the new regulations in reference to venereal disease amongst the troops in India, were recently sent to Dr. Huntly, who was in charge of the hospital, and was asked if the mission would carry out the rules; whether Dr. Huntly replied that the mission hospital had been treating all natives, including women, affected with the disease in question, and was prepared to continue such treatment, but that any examination of women for a purpose similar to that of the Contagious Diseases Act was out of the question; whether shortly afterwards six months' notice was served that Government would 46 take away this building from the mission; and whether he proposes to take any action, in the matter?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAI have not received any report on the subject, but if the hon. Member will furnish me with the information on which his Question is based I will make inquiries.
§ MR. STUARTI will furnish the noble Lord with the information.