Captain FABERasked the Postmaster-General if he will state what precautions, if any, are taken concerning postmen going on duty who have members of their families ill from contagious disease?
§ The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Herbert Samuel)In the case of certain specified diseases a postman is placed off duty immediately, and is not allowed to resume until instructions have been received from the chief medical officer to the post office. In the case of other diseases, 188 the postman remains on duty, but the case is at once reported to the chief medical officer, who advises whether it is necessary that the employé concerned should absent himself. Absence from duty with full pay is insisted on if there is considered to be any risk of conveying the infection, whether to the local post office staff, or to the public generally.