HC Deb 16 September 1914 vol 66 c943
38. Mr. DOUGLAS HALL

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War if the principal medical officers of military hospitals could be empowered to purchase drugs and surgical appliances locally when urgently needed, in consequence of the large concentration of troops in certain districts, without having to requisition for them?

Mr. BAKER

By existing Regulations this is already authorised in urgent circumstances which do not admit of the usual procedure of requisition.