61. Mr. PRICEasked the Minister of Pensions whether pensioner patients sent to the Yarmouth naval hospital are subject to the same discipline as naval patients; and, if so, whether he will 1797 arrange for the pensioners to be sent to a Ministry hospital or a civil hospital, near their home, on a capitation basis?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of PENSIONS (Lieut.-Colonel Headlam)Ministry patients sent to the Yarmouth hospital are subject only to the discipline necessarily maintained for certified mental cases in a mental hospital. Certified mental cases are not suitable for admission to a Ministry hospital, but it is open to any patient, who may so desire, to apply for transfer to a local county or borough mental hospital nearer his home.