§ Captain Markhamasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that officer patients at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, are being charged for treatment irrespective of whether their illness or injury is due to war service or other causes, and whether he will arrange that in those cases where illness or injury is due to service conditions he will arrange 789W for free treatment at hospitals of this kind?
§ Captain MargessonIn no case is any officer charged anything in respect of treatment for wounds. In cases of other disabilities, the normal rule that officers admitted to military hospitals are charged 2S. 6d. a day in respect of maintenance and treatment conditions, and I see no reason to change it. While he is in hospital, an officer is relieved of subsistence expenses which he would normally incur in his mess.