§ THE EARL OF STRAFFORDasked the Under Secretary of State for War, Whether the recommendations made by the Board of Visitors in 1887 at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, have been or are in course of being carried out? The points to which he drew special attention were the desirability of making provision for the cataloguing of the library at Sandhurst, the insufficient accommodation at Woolwich, where there were 232 students, or 32 above the normal number, and the urgent need of establishing at that Academy some sort of hospital for infectious diseases.
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Lord HARRIS),in reply, said, that the question of the cataloguing of the library at Sandhurst had come before a Departmental Committee, and after reading their Report he must say he was not of the same opinion as the Board of Visitors. He 1352 thought that there was an ample staff at Sandhurst for carrying out the cataloguing there without calling in extraneous aid. As to providing hospital accommodation at Woolwich in case of infectious disease, he understood there was no room available for that purpose. With respect to the suggested alterations and additions to Woolwich Academy, including hot water apparatus, it was estimated that they would cost £24,000; and the Secretary of State, looking at the requirements of other Public Services at the present time, did not consider the alterations of a character sufficiently urgent to justify so large an expenditure.