§ 21. Mr. Colegateasked the Secretary of State for War whether he will take the necessary steps to see that men are not employed as nursing orderlies in A.T.S. wards of military hospitals?
§ Sir J. GriggMen are not employed for nursing in A.T.S. wards of military hospitals, but since R.A.M.C. orderlies are sometimes used to carry coal and to do other such hard manual work in the hospital they may also have to do this in the A.T.S. ward.
§ Mr. ColegateIs not the Secretary of State aware that I have given him full particulars of a man who was ordered to act as a nursing orderly and was punished for not obeying the order? It was not a question of carrying coal.
§ Sir J. GriggMy present information conflicts with that, but I am going more fully into the matter and I will deal with that particular case.