62. Mr. TYSON WILSONasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he has recently received a protest from four work men employed at Chatham dockyard, who were a short time ago rejected by the dockyard surgeon as unfit to be placed on the establishment; whether he is aware that these four men have, after a strict 1947 examination by doctors of high reputation, been certified to be in good health and in every respect sound; and whether, under these circumstances, he will accept these men as fit to be placed on the establishment or, failing this, whether he will have them again examined by the dockyard surgeon in conjunction with a private practitioner?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Dr. Macnamara)The men referred to appealed against their rejection, supporting their appeal with certificates from private medical practitioners. As a result they have been re-examined and pronounced medically fit for establishment.