§ 16 Mr. WALTER ROCHasked the Under-Secretary for War (1) if he will obtain from the hospitals in this country a Return showing the number of cases of compound fractures and the number of such cases which have resulted in amputation being necessary; (2) if he will obtain from the hospitals in this country a Return showing what proportion of the patients treated have arrived there with septic wounds; and (3) if he will obtain, from the hospitals in this country a Return showing the number of cases of abdominal wounds, and the number of cases of such abdominal wounds which have proved fatal?
§ Mr. TENNANTI will answer this and the next two questions together. The information which my hon. Friend desires would lay upon the medical authorities a vast amount of work, and, inasmuch as they are now heavily taxed, I should be obliged if my hon. Friend would not press me to ask them to undertake the additional work involved.
§ Mr. ROCHIs there not a register in the hospitals of each individual case, and is it not merely a question of tabulating them in order to get the information asked for?
§ Mr. TENNANTI have no doubt there is a register in each hospital, but what my hon. Friend asks for is a return from each hospital, and that would involve much labour.
§ Mr. TENNANTI cannot say whether that is so or not, but I should not think any register would contain the information the hon. Gentleman asks for—namely, how many of the patients treated arrived there with septic wounds.