HC Deb 08 May 1903 vol 122 cc203-4
CAPTAIN JESSEL (St. Pancras, S.)

To ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state how many cases of infectious disease are being treated in A Block of the Guards' Hospital, Rochester Row, Westminster; and whether, as the hospital is in close proximity to the sleeping rooms of the boys of the Newport Market Army Training School, Coburg Row, Rochester Row, he will take measures to remove the patients elsewhere.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The mild varieties only of infectious diseases, which do not require notification under the Infectious Diseases Act, are treated at Rochester Row Hospital, such as measles and mumps. There is considered to be no danger of infection being spread to the boys of the school mentioned.