§ MAJOR RASCH (Essex, S.E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he can state the number of men in the Irish Fusiliers who were unfit for service, through contagious disease, on their arrival in Egypt from India in January?
MR. BRODICKNinety-two men of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers were found unfit for active service through venereal diseases when the battalion was inspected at Alexandria on the 17th.