§ CAPTAIN DONELANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether he is aware that established officers in provincial head post offices in Ireland, as in Youghal, Mildeton, Fermoy, Dungarvau, Belturbet, Kilrush, Westport, Letterkenny, etc., are denied free medical attendance, while those in larger offices, as Dublin, Cork, Queenstown, Belfast, 452 Limerick, and Waterford, enjoy this privilege, provided their salaries do not exceed £150 per annum; and whether steps will be taken to place all established officers in provincial offices in Ireland upon the same footing in this respect?
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (for Mr. BANBURY)The appointment of a medical officer to the Post Office at provincial towns is sanctioned only when there are at least 19 or 20 officers in the town who would come under the medical officer's charge. Whenever the numbers at any town amount to the required minimum steps are taken to obtain the services of a duly qualified medical officer.