§ Mr. CHARLES DUNCANasked the Under-Secretary of State for War, the approximate number of persons in the employ of his department to whom Section 4 of the Superannuation Act of 1887 is applicable; what percentage of this number per annum it is estimated will die while in the Service; and what would be the average annual cost of granting to the dependents of persons so dying a gratuity on the scale provided by the section of the Act referred to for persons retiring on a medical certificate of infirmity?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe number of non-pensionable civilian subordinates employed in Army Departments is approximately 25,000. From the statistics available the rate of mortality is about 6¼ per thousand. It is impossible to give figures showing either how many men in the Service at a given time will die in the Service or the cost required, in the last part of the question, without very laborious calculations.