§ Mr. WATTasked the Postmaster-General if his attention had been called to the case of Jane Shaw, now resident in Glasgow, who entered the service of the Post Office at Manchester in 1899 after competitive examination and served in his Department until 1908, when she suffered a nervous breakdown owing to her duties as telegraphist and to telegraphist's 1791W cramp; whether he is aware that the report on this case by Dr. Watson, the Post Office doctor at Manchester, is contradicted by certificates from two outside doctors of greater eminence; and whether it is on that account that the Post Office Department refuse now, when she is restored to health, to take her back into their service?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELMiss Shaw did not state while she was in the Post Office service that she suffered from telegraphist's cramp, and she was not superannuated on that ground. I have seen the medical certificates to which the hon. Member refers, and I am glad to learn that Miss Shaw is now in good health, but I am satisfied, after looking into the whole case, that it would not be advisable to bring her back again to duty.