§ Wing-Commander Erringtonasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that wounded German prisoners in military hospitals in this country have been put in the same wards as British wounded and that this is resented by the latter; and whether he will give an undertaking that this will not occur again.
§ Mr. WillinkI have been asked to reply. In the early stages of evacuation it is necessary to admit German prisoners of war and British wounded to the same hospitals, which are civilian hospitals in the Emergency Hospital Scheme. Every effort is made to segregate them, but in some hospitals the number of prisoners is too small to make the use of a separate ward practicable. At a later stage of treatment the prisoners are transferred to certain designated hospitals, where they are accommodated separately from British patients.