§ Mr. NEWTONasked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the claim for a pension of ex-Corporal H. G. Wheatley, who entered the Army (Northamptonshire Regiment) on 31st August, 1904, and was discharged with a very good character on 21st June, 1909, as unfit for service; whether the facts of this case are that Wheatley, when first medically treated in June, 1908, although suffering from abscess in the buttocks secondary to a peritoneal fistula, and requiring to be treated by laying the whole track open, was only given ointments and such like palliative treatment until his discharge; and whether, under these circumstances, he will consider Wheatley's claim for a pension?
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§ Mr. HALDANEThis man was discharged as medically unfit owing to his having declined to be operated upon for fistula. In these circumstances, and having regard to his short service, the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital decided that he was not entitled to any pension.