§ Colonel DAYasked the Home Secretary if he is aware that there are insufficient cells set apart for prisoners suffering from tuberculosis in Pentonville and Brixton prisons, and, in consequence, such prisoners are sometimes put in the ordinary cells; will he take immediate action to improve the accommodation 1330W from sufferers of this disease in prisons; and will he state if all ordinary cells so used are thoroughly disinfected after tuberculous patients have left them?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe special cells for tubercular cases, four at Brixton and eight at Pentonville, are sufficient for the usual average numbers of such cases. Ordinary cells are not now used for tuberculous patients. When the number of cases exceeds the number of special cells, the patients are taken into the prison hospital, and the rooms so used are disinfected afterwards.