§ SIR W. WEDDERBURNI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if he would explain what were the circumstances under which nine English soldiers were sent, on the 8th October last, from Bombay to the Pasteur Institute at Paris, to be treated for hydrophobia; what is the evidence in the possession of the Government showing that the dogs which had bitten these men were rabid; under what official supervision these men were sent; and whether it is true, as stated by the Director of the Paris Institute, that these men arrived in Paris without any credentials or anything showing when or where they had been bitten?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAI am aware that nine soldiers were sent from India, early in October, to be treated in Paris for hydrophobia, but I have no information as to the circumstances. Such cases occur not infrequently; and on this occasion the usual arrangements were made for their journey from Marseilles to Paris, and for their accommodation while under treatment. I have received no complaint, or representation on the subject from the Director of the Paris Institute, Mid I should have thought that the men themselves could have been capable of explaining to the authorities of the Institute when and where they had been bitten.
§ SIR W. WEDDERBURNIs the noble Lord aware that the Director of the Institute requested the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" to make it known that the men had been sent without any information?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAThen the Director is not a man of business, or he would have communicated with India.