§ 37. Sir EDWARD COATESasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether all cases coming within the category of zymotic diseases notifiable under Statute to the local sanitary authority and which occur among the troops now undergoing training in the United Kingdom are so notified; whether such cases are removed for treatment to the isolation hospitals of the local authority in whose district they arise or are treated in camp hospital; and, in case the latter course is pursued, what steps are taken to ensure complete and efficient isolation?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY Of STATE for WAR (Mr. Tennant)Yes, Sir, a system of intercommunication exists between the civil medical officers of health and the military sanitary officers. All infectious cases are treated in the local civil isolation hospitals, except in a few cases where local civil accommodation is not available. Such cases are treated in special military isolation hospitals. Arrangemuents have also been made for the erection of pavilions in the grounds of civil isolation hospitals where existing accommodation is insufficient.