asked the Under-Secretary of State for War the number of admissions to hospitals for venereal disease in the British Army for the years 1915, 1916, 1917, and the first four months of 1918; and how many cases of venereal disease were being treated in hospital on the latest date for which figures are available?

I am afraid that complete figures are not available, and in any case it is not desirable to publish such information.

Can my right hon. Friend give us an assurance that the figures, so far as he is aware, are of a reassuring and not an alarming character?

No; I cannot add anything to the answer which I have given.