Major MORRISON-BELLasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that Stanley Francis Pinn, of Sidmouth, who was examined for bronchial affection in June, 1912, July, 1912, December, 1912, and March, 1913, by naval surgeons (when he was told there was nothing serious), and again on May, 1913, when tuberculosis was found, and the patient was sent to the Stonehouse Hospital, being in June invalided out of the Service, has now been sent as a private patient to Didworthy Sanatorium at the expense of the medical officer of health for Sidmouth, since the latter despaired (after Stanley F. Pinn had been visited in July by a Government tuberculosis officer from Exeter) of his getting any insurance sanatorium treatment while still curable; and whether, seeing that such delay was, according to the medical officer of health, a matter of life and death for this patient, he is prepared to direct that the Insurance Commissioners refund the medical officer his out-of-pocket expenses in getting Pinn over to Didworthy, and bear the expense, or, if not all, then some of the expense, of keeping Pinn at this private sanatorium?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI am snaking inquiry into this case and will inform the hon. Member of the result.