§ 40 and 44. Mr. WATTasked the Secretary of State for War (1) whether the military hospital at Dundee is part of the asylum there; whether there are still mental patients in the establishment; whether both classes of patients intermix in the grounds and elsewhere; and (2) whether the nurses in the military hospital, Dundee, are paid 1s. 1d. per day as wages; whether their sleeping accommodation is at the Royal Hotel, at the other end of the town; whether the tram-car fares of these nurses for this distance is 6d. per day, which they have to pay out of their wages; whether there has been in the last two months a considerable number of nurses' resignations, causing marked shortage of the nursing staff; whether heavy train-loads of wounded men are frequently arriving who cannot be properly attended to on account of this shortage; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ Mr. FORSTERI will cause inquiries to be made into the points raised in these questions.