§ SIR WALTER FOSTERI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if his attention has been called to the statement that there have been 6,000 cases of typhoid fever among the troops at Ladysmith since the relief of that place; and if he can give the number of admissions to hospital for typhoid fever, and the number of deaths from that disease in the forces under General Buller for the twelve weeks ending 25th May.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMI have no knowledge of the statement put forward, and I have complete Returns for the Lady-smith garrison only up to 18th May. The cases of enteric at Ladysmith from the date of the relief to the week ending 18th May amount to 799. Including the above the total admissions for all the forces in Natal during the twelve weeks ending 25th May were 2,380, and the deaths 550.