§ Major H TERRELLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether there are well over a hundred men in the Guards at Chelsea Barracks who are unfit for service, and are never likely to be fit for service, who have not been fit for months past to do any drill, and who have, in fact, with the exception of a few odd jobs, done, and are doing, nothing; and what is the cost to the country of retaining each of such men in the Army?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONAll men surplus to requirements are reported on the first of each month and at intervals during the month as they accumulate. They are then inspected and disposed of by transfer to other corps. At the last Return at the end of January ninety-one men were shown in categories B 2 and B 3; forty-five of these have been sent to other corps; thirty-five will be tested at their trades next week, and the remaining eleven are earmarked for agriculture and substitution. During December and January seventy men have been discharged as medically unfit.