§ MR. WEIR (ROSS and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether arrangements can be made for the military hospitals in India to be provided with surgical instruments of modern pattern, and will surgical instruments with wooden handles either be withdrawn or refitted with metal handles.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingI am informed that all instruments sent to India in recent years have metal handles, but I will inquire more fully into the matter, and, if there is any reason to suppose that a large proportion of the surgical instruments now in use in India are not of the most approved pattern, the Government of India will, I have no doubt, be anxious to replace them with as little delay as possible.