§ 56. Mr. KINGasked the Minister of National Service whether he is aware that a married man with five children, J. Dloogatz, R.D.R., Maidstone, who has for years suffered from tuberculosis, been in two sanatoria, and was recently a patient at Victoria Park Chest Hospital, where he was warned against sleeping in the same room as other persons, has been taken into the Army, and has for two weeks been sleeping on a cement floor with a crowd of men at Maidstone; and whether, to prevent the spread of tuberculosis, this man will be immediately discharged?
§ Mr. BECKI am having inquiries made into the matters referred to in the first part of the hon. Member's question. I 794 think that the points raised in the remainder of the question should be addressed by my hon. Friend to the Under-Secretary of State for War.
§ Mr. KINGIs the hon. Gentleman not aware that there are a great number of scandals and that there has been a great deal of newspaper comment on the conditions at that place?