§ MAJOR RASCH () Essex, S.E.I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the latest Report of the Army Medical Department with reference to Aldershot shows the number of admissions for zymotic diseases, chiefly scarlet fever, to have been considerable; and whether the War Office have now-decided that the milk supply to this camp is in future to be supplied from the sewage farm?
MR. J. POWELL WILLIAMSThe report for 1897 does show that the number of cases of zymotic diseases was considerable at Aldershot. The Report for 1898, however, shows diminution in cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, and enteric fever. The General Officer commanding does not recommend any change in the arrangement under which milk is supplied from the sewage farm, but inquiry will be made as to the possibility of a connection between zymotic disease and the supply of milk from this source.
§ MAJOR RASCHIs the milk still supplied from the sewage farm?