Dr. DAVIESasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of men who have been granted pensions for pulmonary tuberculosis held to be attributable to the conditions of service during each of the last 10 years for which statistics are available; the number of men who were refused pensions as being non-attributable; and the total number of men in receipt of such pensions at the latest convenient date?
Mr. ALEXANDERThe numbers of men invalided for pulmonary tuberculosis 881W and awarded attributable pensions and the numbers refused such pensions for each year since 1924 are as follow:
Granted. Not Granted. 1924 … … … 5 151 1925 … … … 2 187 1926 … … … 6 191 1927 … … … 18 162 1928 … … … 42 98 1929 … … … 177 83 Statistics for the years prior to 1924 and the numbers of men now actually in receipt of attributable pensions for pulmonary tuberculosis are not available, and could not be compiled without a very considerable expenditure of time and labour.