§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it has been brought to his notice that a recent military expedition in Uganda was actually sent on active service without a doctor to look after the sick and wounded, and that Captain Dunning, D. S. O. Royal Fusiliers, who was seriously wounded, lived for some days in great agony; further, that there is every reason to believe that his life would have been spared had he received even ordinary medical aid; and will he explain why medical volunteers for this service, who could easily have been obtained in this country, were not called for?
MR. CURZONThe incident alluded to occurred in March, 1895, before the present Government came into office. The arrangements for the expedition in question were made by the officer commanding the troops in Uganda. There were at the time only three medical officers attached to the Uganda Staff, none of whom, unfortunately, were available for the expedition, which could not, for military reasons, be postponed to admit of volunteers being procured from this country. The number of doctors on the Uganda staff has recently been raised to twelve.