§ Mr. SWANasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that W. E. Rodwell, a conscientious objector, who has served considerably over two years' imprisonment, is now in a serious state of health in Pentonville Prison; that he has been in the prison hospital for twenty-six weeks during this sentence, and has lost weight during his imprisonment; whether he is also aware that this man comes from a tubercular family and suffered from consumption of the bowels in his childhood, and that he is expecting to undergo an operation shortly; and whether he will order a medical examination of this man by some doctor other than the prison medical adviser?
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§ Sir HAMAR GREENWOODMy right hon. Friend had already felt justified in advising the discharge of this prisoner upon medical grounds.