§ Mr. ASTORasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in the event of an insured person entitled to sanatorium benefit being recommended for institutional treatment through the tuberculosis officer in charge of a dispensary, and being sent to a sanatorium or other institution, the fee of 6d. per head now being offered by the Government to medical practitioners would still be paid to that insured person's medical adviser, or would be paid to the institution where he was being treated?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe 6d. referred to is a capitation payment in respect of the treatment of tuberculous insured persons by general medical practitioners. The aggregate amount of these sixpences contributed in respect of all insured persons is to pay for the domiciliary portion of sanatorium benefit, leaving the remainder of the total sum allocated by the Act for such benefit to the institutional treatment.