§ DR. FARQUHARSON (Aberdeenshire, W.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office if it is true, as stated in the Irish Times of 30th May and the Army and Navy Gazette of 4th June, 1892, that recruits rejected at other stations have proceeded to a large London recruiting station and been immediately accepted there, and that a medical officer has been recently removed from his post, as examiner of recruits, for not working in harmony with his superior officers by declining to pass into the ranks recruits who, in his opinion, were quite unfit for the Service; and, if so, whether this officer's removal was carried out with the approval of the Secretary of State?
§ MR. BRODRICKThe statement that recruits refused at some stations have in some cases gone to others and have been admitted is true in the case of London and of other stations also, because medical officers, like other people, sometimes differ in opinion. The medical officer in question has not been relieved of his duties for the reason stated in the question; but the Secretary of State is, at the present time, personally looking into all the facts of the case, which had not previously been examined by him.