§ MR. CLAUDE HAYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state how many aliens suffering from infectious disease were last year treated at the port sanitary hospital at Denton, Gravesend; and what expenditure was incurred in their treatment.
I beg also to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether aliens who have been treated for infectious disease at the Port Sanitary Hospital at Denton, Gravesend, are, when discharged or convalescent, examined by an immigration officer as alien steerage passengers coming within the scope of the Aliens Act, or are discharged from the hospital without such examination.
§ * MR. GLADSTONEI am informed by the town clerk of the City that the number of aliens suffering from infectious diseases who were treated at the Port Sanitary Hospital at Denton, near Gravesend, during the year 1905 was thirty six, and the proportion of expenditure incurred in the treatment and maintenance of such aliens was £485. This expenditure is borne entirely by the Corporation of London out of its corporate funds and not by the rates. No charge is made either to shipowners or patients. Any such alien who was liable on his arrival in this country to inspection under the Aliens Act has, by virtue of Rule 9 made there under, to be inspected before release from hospital.