§ Mr. WATTasked the Postmaster-General whether a fixed rate per head per annum is allowed to medical men for attendance on Post Office officials in the Glasgow post office; if so, what is that rate and what services are given in exchange for it; does it include medicines; does it apply to picked lives; and is the-rate for his Department the same throughout the rest of the country?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELPost Office medical officers, alike at Glasgow and elsewhere, are remunerated by a uniform capitation fee of 8s. 6d. per annum in respect of each member of the local staff placed under their charge, no distinction being made between picked lives and 731W others. The remuneration thus calculated covers the supply of medicines, and all such ordinary medical treatment as is sought from a general practitioner besides periodical sanitary inspection of Post Office buildings, reporting on the physical or mental condition of all officers whose retirement is in question or whose fitness for a particular duty may be in doubt, and speaking generally, assisting the Postmaster-General with their professional knowledge and performing such advisory functions as are necessary to the welfare of the Post Office staff.