§ Mr. E. Smithasked the Minister of Health the amounts contributed towards the relief of the local rates by the transport departments of the cities of Burnley, Bolton, Blackpool, Birkenhead, Stock-port, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Stoke-on-Trent, and Newcastle-under-Lyme, during the years 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939, respectively?
§ Mr. ElliotThe amounts contributed in relief of local rates during certain years by the transport undertakings of the under mentioned boroughs were as shown in the table:
been called away from their practices in other districts and appointed to the same hospital from the Territorial Army, or with emergency commissions as full-time junior officers; and what steps does he propose to take to remedy this state of affairs?
§ Mr. StanleyThe officers referred to in the first half of the Question were selected in peace to fill certain specialist appointments in a war hospital in their own district on mobilisation. The appointments in question carry the rank of major, and the officers were selected by reason of their qualifications. The establishment of 787W the hospital had to be completed by posting officers in lower ranks drawn from various parts of the country who had not been similarly earmarked for specialist duties. Every effort is made wherever possible to employ medical officers on duties in which full use is made of their particular qualifications, but it will be 788W appreciated that they can only be given rank and pay appropriate to the post they are actually filling. All the officers in question are equally liable for full-time service. I will inquire into the question of private practice if my hon. and gallant Friend will let me know the hospital to which he refers.