§ MR. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the assurance conveyed to him by the Hoxne Rural District 352 Council on behalf of their medical officer of health, that the disease of which Private Snowling, of the 2nd Norfolks, died at Fressingfield on the 29th June last, was typhoid fever, and that he was suffering from it at the time of his discharge from hospital at Aldershot, and considering that two other persons contracted the disease from Private Snowling at Fressingfield, he will cause further inquiry to be made into the circumstances of his discharge, with the object of preventing, in the interests of the public health, a repetition of similar incidents.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The hon. Member has apparently been misinformed. Private Snowling was invalided home for secondary syphilis, and was treated in hospital as a convalescent for this disease until he left on sick furlough on 22nd May.