§ SIR CARNE RASCH (Essex, Chelmsford)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the action of the Longford Infirmary Committee at their last 1218 quarterly meeting, when the officer commanding, having requested that emergency cases should be treated there owing to the military hospital being closed, was refused, on the ground that the cases might be those of Englishmen, and also that no decent farmer could be in the same ward with a soldier; and, if so, what provision has been made for such cases of accident and emergency as may occur among the troops there quartered.
§ MR. BROMLEY DAVENPORTThe attention of the Secretary of State was first drawn to the matter by this Question. As the military hospital at Long ford is fully equipped with a civil practitioner in charge, no question arises as regards the adequate treatment of any emergency or other cases. The alleged gratuitous insult to the British soldier by the Long ford Infirmary Committee would hardly, therefore, appear to deserve further consideration.