§ MR. COCHRANETo ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can state, either in the form of an Answer or in a Return, the total number of men belonging to the military forces of the Crown employed as artificers, engineers, mechanics, or in other quasi-civil employment, not on active service, who have received injuries in the course of their employment; and what gratuity or other form of compensation has been paid in each individual case during the years 1904 and 1905.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) As regards the numbers injured, the information can only be obtained by calling for Returns from all the commands. As regards the last part of the Question, apart from treatment in hospital, the only form of compensation to soldiers-injured in this way is the grant by the Chelsea Commissioners of pension on discharge.