§ SIR GILBERT PARKER(Gravesend)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state, in view of the recent case of death by suffocation through overcrowding in Gravesend. Barracks, to which his attention has been drawn by the coroner's jury, what steps he intends to take.
§ MR. BRODRICKThe matter has been inquired into, and steps were immediately taken to stop the overcrowding referred to. The causes of the overcrowding are being made the subject of careful inquiry.