DR. KENNYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he has considered the Memorial recently addressed to him by the Scotch Medical Licensing Bodies on the subject of the recent changes in the method of appointing Examiners for the Army Medical Service, which complains of the new arrangements as an unjust monopoly in favour of the English Medical Corporations, and as a measure of centralisation tending to attract students to the London Medical Schools, and tending to aggravate the evils of the cramming system; 1705 whether the objections urged against the system by the Scotch Colleges are in the main identical with those previously urged against it by the Irish Colleges; and whether he has taken any, and, if so, what, steps to alter the now system?
§ *MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe Memorial, which is in the main identical with that received from the Irish Colleges, has been under my consideration, and I have replied to it that the new system involves no such monopoly as is apprehended, as I have already explained on the 21st ultimo, in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Stirlingshire.
§ MR. JACKS (Stirlingshire)Having regard to this very important matter, has the right hon. Gentleman no explanation to offer as to the reason of these extraordinary appointments?
§ *MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThey do not require explanation and the appointments were not extraordinary.