§ Mr. NEWTONasked the Secretary to the Treasury what provision is made for paying the travelling expenses incurred by an insured person ordered to proceed to a town eighteen or twenty miles distant from the town in which he resides in order to be medically examined in connection with a claim for sanatorium benefit; and whether arrangements can be made for the examination of insured persons claiming sanatorium benefit by a local doctor?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI am advised that the payment of travelling expenses in the circumstances referred to in the first part of the question may properly be treated as expenses incurred for the purpose of administering sanatorium benefit, and that, if the circumstances of the applicant warrant it, such expenses might properly be defrayed by the insurance committee. With regard to the second part of the question, it rests with the insurance committee concerned to decide what arrangements shall be made to ascertain whether applicants are in fact suffering from tuberculosis.