§ Captain W. BENNasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that upwards of 500 wounded men, the majority of whom are cases that have lost one or more limbs, have recently been-transferred from various military hospitals, in particular from the King George Hospital, to the Paddington Military Hospital, in the Harrow Road; whether he is aware that the Paddington Military Hospital, being a converted workhouse, is quite un-suited for the reception of such cases, there being no lift, with the consequence that these men have to clamber up and down narrow and inconvenient stone staircases; whether there have been accidents and men have been injured from this cause; whether, owing to the large number of outdoor patients who take lodgings close to the Lock Hospital in this neighbourhood, the Harrow Road district is more infected with venereal disease than any other district in London; whether this is a suitable district for the convalescent treatment of a large number of partly disabled men; and, if not, whether he will give immediate instructions that all military cases be removed from the Paddington Military Hospital, and no further military cases sent there?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLComplaint has been made, especially regarding the situation of this hospital, and for some time past endeavours have been made to obtain another suitable building, but, I regret to say, so far without success. I hope, however, that arrangements may be made to enable the hospital to be vacated within the next few weeks. I am not in a position at the moment to answer the detailed matters referred to in the question, but inquiry is being made.