8. Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the Manchester Chamber of Commerce has appealed to the Governor of Sierra Leone requesting that Europeans entering the nursing home may continue to enjoy the services of their own medical attendant, whether native or European; and can he say what reply has been sent to this request?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. Harcourt)I do not know what reply has finally been returned by the Governor of Sierra Leone to the letter from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to which my hon. Friend refers; but I have decided that the native 1921 medical practitioner to whose case the Chamber of Commerce specially referred shall continue to be allowed the same facilities for attending his patients in the nursing home that he has hitherto enjoyed, subject to the privilege being liable to be withdrawn at any time for good cause shown.