Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War what steps are being taken to provide further accommodation for institutional treatment of neurasthenic and other patients in Scotland; and whether this provision is being made by means of special accommodation for military cases or is being made mainly at the expense of the existing inadequate accommodation for civilian purposes?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe Department has in hand three schemes for additional accommodation for soldiers in Scotland—one for neurasthenic cases and two for other patients. All these are in buildings which were incomplete, and which the action of the Department has caused to be completed. At the end of the War they will be available for the civil population, but if the military authorities had not used the buildings they would have been still incomplete.
Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTTasked the Pensions Minister what steps are being taken to provide further accommodation for institutional treatment of neurasthenic, tuberculous, and other patients in Scotland; and whether this provision is being made by means of special accommodation for discharged soldiers and sailors or is being made mainly at the expense of the existing inadequate accommodation for civilian purposes?
§ Mr. PARKERNo steps are at present being taken to provide further accommodation for neurasthenic cases in Scotland. The question of further accommodation for tuberculosis is under consideration. A house in Perthshire, generously given to the Ministry, and a school in Glasgow, are intended to be converted into accommodation for paraplegic and general cases respectively.