Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 16 June 1924.
Colonel Charles Yate
, Melton
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, considering the disastrous effects in Mesepotamia, of the retrenchment in hospitals establishment in the army in India carried out in pre-War days, the India Office is prepared to sanction the proposed reduction of 1,957 beds in British and 2,041 beds in Indian station hospitals, of 15 officers of the Indian Medical Service, and 60 assistant surgeons?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
