§ 26. Sir Richard Glynasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many native patients in the George VI Hospital at Nairobi are casualties due to assaults or woundings by other Africans; how many of these native patients are Government servants; and in how many cases their assailants have been arrested.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodThe clinical notes on patients at the hospital do not contain the information sought, and crime statistics are not kept on a racial basis.
§ Sir R. GlynIs my right hon. Friend aware that there is considerable anxiety in Kenya owing to the fact that a number of loyal natives have been assaulted recently? Is he further aware that those anxieties are increased by the belief that the assailants are in some cases former Mau Mau detainees? Is he satisfied that everything possible is being done to prevent a repetition of these offences?
§ Mr. MacleodYes, I agree there is anxiety. Naturally, when about 79,000 people who have been in detention are released, which is what has been done over the last year or two, it is not surprising if there is a certain increase in the crime statistics. I have no evidence at all that any Government servants have been made the special target for the sort of assaults mentioned by my hon. Friend, but it is a situation on which I will keep a careful watch.