HC Deb 20 February 1946 vol 419 c1143
39. Mr. Keenan

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty how many officers, commissioned ranks, and ratings, other ranks, have been discharged or invalided out of the R.N. suffering from tuberculosis, from September, 1939, to January, 1946.

Mr. Alexander

8,144 officers and ratings, including Royal Marines, were finally invalided on account of pulmonary tuberculosis during the period September, 1939, to January, 1946.