§ SIR JOHN COLOMB (Great Yarmouth)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether patients occupying the old wing of the Naval Hospital at Malta for surgical treatment have, while there or soon afterwards, developed fever.
(Answered by Mr. Pretyman.) Patients while in hospital for surgical treatment, or soon after, have developed "fever," but the number is small. During 1904 there were seventy-four cases for operation, and of these three developed "fever."
§ SIR JOHN COLOMBTo ask the Civil Lord of the Admiralty when the inner surface of the walls of soft stone of the old wing of the Naval Hospital at Malta were last treated by any process of sanitary purification; and what was the nature of that process.
(Answered by Mr. Arthur Lee.) The whole of the walls of the wards and passages, etc., in the old portion of the hospital have been scraped and coated with a special gloss enamel paint, forming an impervious and washable surface. The soft stone floors have been removed, and replaced by terazzo paving. The work was commenced in 1899, and completed in 1902.