§ 24. Mr. JOWETTasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if it was with his sanction that the father of ex-corporal James Burton, No. 4190, Royal Army Medical Corps, who, at the commencement of the present War, was in the Army Reserve after having previously served nine years with the Colours including periods of service in India and South Africa, who, during the present War, was wounded at Ypres and afterwards, when he was supposed to have recovered, was sent to Egypt and then to Salonika with the Royal Army Medical Corps, at which latter place his strength gave way altogether and he was sent into hospital at Malta a nerve-shattered wreck who, on leaving the hospital at Malta, was discharged from the Army and, after a short stay in an asylum in the South of England, was finally sent into the lunaticasylum at Menston, Yorkshire, on behalf of which last-mentioned institution the Bradford Board of Guardians, in the absence- of adequate arrangements on the part of the War Office for meeting the cost in such cases, not to mention the failure to provide accommodation for them elsewhere than in lunatic asylums, has put the father of ex-corporal Burton to the indignity of proving that he is unable to bear the charge of 12s. per week 16 towards the cost of nursing back his war-broken son to health and strength if that is possible; and, if he has not sanctioned the proceedings in this case, what action he proposes to take in regard to it and other similar cases?
§ Mr. FORSTERI am making inquiries into this case, and will let my hon. Friend know the result.