§ 18. Mr. SNOWDENasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he will have an inquiry made into allegations of serious insanitary conditions and the absence of essential precautions at the Isolation Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, where it is alleged that there is no isolation, the patients mixing indiscriminately with each other, and patients are allowed outside for hours a day mixing with any number of civilians?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONInquiries have been made as to this hospital, which is under civil administration, and the suggestions in the question are not in accordance with the facts. The Tunbridge Wells Isolation Hospital is a well-equipped hospital, containing fifty-eight beds in four separate pavilions. The proof that there is no promiscuous mingling of patients lies in the fact that no case of cross infection has occurred during the War. Patients do not mix with civilians. The sanitary conditions are satisfactory, and the medical officer of health, who visits the hospital daily, states that no insanitary condition has arisen during the three years he has held office.