§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he can state the average length of service of the 3,275 men annually invalided from the Army during the past five years, and of the 1,195 of those to whom pensions were granted; also the proportion of each of these classes suffering from disability due to climate or military service?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. ST. JOHN BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordThis detailed information would require much labour and a considerable period of time to compile, as 16,000 discharge documents would have to be examined, and I fear the results would not be commensurate with the trouble.