§ 79. Sir B. FALLEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, seeing that the wife of a naval rating who was invalided with tuberculosis attributable to service and granted service and disability pensions under the provisions of A. M. O. 13 of 1922 would receive part of her husband's pension whilst he was undergoing treatment at a sanatorium provided under the National Health Insurance Act, he will say why the 809 wife of a naval lunatic rating whose disability is attributable to service does not receive the same treatment?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe special treatment afforded in cases of tuberculosis is provided under the scheme of National Health Insurance, but as regards lunatics, the pensions are disposed of under the Lunacy Acts and the Naval Regulations, and the institution having charge of the pensioner has first claim on the pension.