§ Sir PHILIP MAGNUSasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether similar medical arrangements to those in force at the Crystal Palace with respect to invalids suffering from cerebro-spinal fever are, or will be, made in the case of invalids similarly affected in the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe Crystal Palace and the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, are not comparable establishments. The former is a training establishment for sound men, the latter a hospital where sick men are treated; consequently patients suffering from cerebrospinal meningitis and contacts with such cases are at once removed from the first, whereas patients and contacts are received into the latter. Naturally every possible precaution is taken at the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, to prevent the disease spreading to any other patient. They are, of course, treated in the infectious not the general hospital.