§ MR. STACPOOLEasked the Secretary of State for India, Whether it was considered necessary that the successful candidates for the Civil Service (India), residing in Ireland and Scotland, should be required, as heretofore, to remain several weeks in London, or to return thither from their respective places of abodes, to be inspected by a medical practitioner in London?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODreplied, that he had communicated with the Civil Service Commissioners with reference to this question, and they considered it absolutely necessary that the successful candidates should be submitted to medical examination by their officer in London. The examination must necessarily extend over several days, and the prize offered being very high he did not think this necessity could be regarded as any great hardship. The Secretary of State allowed £100 to each candidate for expenses, and they might fairly be called upon to defray out of that all the expenses of the journey.