Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 November 1947.
Sir Henry Legge-Bourke
, Isle of Ely
12:00,
4 November 1947
asked the Secretary of State for War if the Baragwanath Hospital at Johannesburg has been handed back to the South African Government; and whether suitable accommodation has been found for all of those tubercular patients who have returned or are returning to this country.
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.
