§ Mr. HOGGEasked the President of the Local Government Board whether, in view of the fact that the out-patient departments of certain civilian hospitals, factory inspection, school medical work, and various dispensaries are being wholly or in part closed down, and that the munition making and industrial activity of the population is now being carried on under severe stress, he will take steps, as representing the health authority, to issue regulations supplementary to those of the last Military Service Act which shall place a limit to the depletion of medical aid for the civilian population by restricting the continued demand for an excessive enrolment of doctors for service in the Royal Army Medical Corps?
§ Mr. LONGI would refer the hon. Member to the replies given on 12th January and 29th February last on this subject by my right hon. Friend the present Secretary for Scotland. The Public Committees referred to give the most careful consideration in every case to the medical needs of the civil population in each area, and I am assured that every care is taken to choose the doctors in such a way as will meet the pressing needs of His Majesty's Forces with the least possible detriment to the various medical services, private and public, of the civil population.