§ MR. SEYMOUR ORMSBY-GORE (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he can state in how many cases medical referees under the Workmen's Compensation Act have been called in to assist the county court judges during the last year for which Returns are available.
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY TO THE HOME OFFICE (Mr. COCHRANE, Ayrshire, N.)The number of cases in England during 1902 in which a reference was made to the medical referees was eighty-six. Thirty-nine of the references were by county court judges, the remainder by arbitrators and arbitration committees. The number of references in 1901 was eighty-three. The number of references in Scotland during 1902 was sixty-one—in Ireland two.