§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether continued hospital treatment is provided for soldiers suffering from nerve disturbance and loss of mental balance in the neurological sections of the twenty-three military hospitals of the United Kingdom, in which uncertifiable cases of this nature amongst the rank and file are treated?
§ Mr. TENNANTYes, Sir, so long as accommodation is available.
§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether Springfield House Hospital, Wandsworth, to which uncertifiable cases of soldiers suffering from nerve disturbance and loss of mental balance are sent, is a block of the Middlesex County Asylum at Wandsworth, and is under the same management as the rest of the institution; whether the rest of the asylums is in use for certified lunatics; whether all the soldiers in the Springfield House block are uncertifiable; whether no civilian could be placed in this position; and, in view of the difficulty of stating at the outset whether a case is curable or not, will he consider the desirability of the provision of hospital treatment for all cases for some time prior to their relegation to buildings associated with lunacy control, and of the acquisition of convalescent homes to be worked in conjunction with the hospitals for the completion of the recovery of such cases?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe answer to the first three parts of the question is in the affirmative and to the fourth, that any civilian admitted to the county asylum would have been certified as insane. As regards the fifth part of the question, I may repeat what I have previously stated that cases are not sent to Springfield House Hospital until after a period of treatment in the neurological section of a general hospital.