7. Major HOPEasked if the attention of the First Lord of the Admiralty has been drawn to the case of Frederick Marshall, carpenter's mate, His Majesty's ship "Cochrane," about to be discharged from Haslar Hospital suffering from consumption; whether he is aware that, after sixteen years' service and suffering from illness contracted in the Service, this man is to be discharged without pension and with only a bonus of £6; and whether he will take steps either to enable this man to complete his cure and return to the Service or to enter civilian life with a more reasonable prospect of finding work and being able to support his wife and family?
Mr. LAMBERT (Civil Lord of the Admiralty)Frederick Marshall is at present in Haslar Hospital under treatment for tuberculous disease. He will be surveyed on the 10th instant and, if found unfit for further service, will be invalided. On that assumption, he will be granted a pension of about ten shillings a week and a good conduct gratuity of £3. As regards the latter portion of the question, an offer was made to treat the man in hospital and to assist him in securing sanatorium benefit on discharge, but it was declined.