§ BARON HENRY DE WORMSasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is the fact that when a man of the Army Hospital Corps contracts an infectious or contagious disease, in consequence of his nursing patients suffering from such disease, he is deprived of his extra pay, and is made subject to hospital stoppages while he is being treated in hospital, theugh the disease has been contracted in the execution of his duty?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONMen of the Army Hospital Corps are liable to stoppages under the circum- 137 stances named, on the general principles that special pay for duty cannot be issued except for the performance of the duty, and that all soldiers are liable to hospital stoppages unless in hospital on account of wounds received in action, or of illness contracted on a service with an. Army in the field. The question of relieving men of the Army Hospital Corps from these stoppages in the case of illness contracted in the discharge of their duty has frequently been considered; but a difficulty has hitherto been felt in treating them differently from other corps in receipt of Departmental pay. I will undertake, however, to look further into the matter.