§ Commander Purseyasked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty if he will state the naval establishments, other than dockyard and civilian establishments in the Plymouth Command, and other than those at Bath, their purposes and the number of officers and ratings, male and female, borne on each establishment and the totals.
§ Mr. C. Ian Orr-EwingThe information for which the hon. and gallant Member asks is set out in the following table. Apart from Headquarters and establishments whose function is obvious from their titles, these shore establishments are all concerned with the training, initial and advanced, of R.N. and W.R.N.S. officers and ratings.
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§ Commander Purseyasked the Civil Lard of the Admiralty why a separate establishment at Alverstoke, Hampshire, is being used part-time only by eight medical officers; and why this work cannot be done at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire.
§ Mr. C. Ian Orr-EwingThe R.N. Medical School at Alverstoke is both a medical research and a teaching establishment it is concerned with research into such aspects of medicine as underwater physiology, nuclear medicine and radiation hazards, pathology and bacteriology. The research aspects of their work, involving as it does collaboration with other Departments, necessarily takes the medical officers away from the school for some of their time. There is no adequate accommodation for it in the R.N. Hospital, Haslar; nor would its work fit readily into the hospital system.