§ Commander BELLAIRSasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, in addition to the six consultant physicians and surgeons who are employed at £5,000 a each per annum, Sir Alfred Fripp, K.C.V.O., M.B., F.R.C.S., Dr. Douglas Shields, M.D., Mr. Arthur Edmunds, M.B., F.R.C.S., Mr. Claude Morris, and Mr. Cecil Hughes are also employed; if so, what pay and emoluments; and whether the same rule applies, allowing of private practice in spare time?
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§ Dr. MACNAMARASir Alfred Fripp and Dr. Shields were, for the first few months of the war, employed at a salary of £5,000 a year between them for consultant duties with the hospital ships, but as it was found by experience that their services could not be utilised to the full they were released from their duties on 24th January, 1915, and have since not been employed nor paid by the Admiralty. The duties and remuneration of Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Morris, and Mr. Cecil Hughes have been already stated in the answer which I gave the hon. Member for the Brentford Division on Thursday last. These gentlemen come under the regulations that, apply to all naval medical officers as regards private practice—i.e., this is not forbidden but, as a matter of fact can, as a rule, rarely be exercised by reason of their daily naval work.