Mr. MACLEANasked the Minister of Pensions whether James Stevenson, No. 187651, Gunner, Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery, who enlisted on the 9th December, 1915, and was discharged on the 15th February, 1919, was admitted to Bellahouston Hospital in April, 1919; whether he is aware that on the 13th December, 1920, he was removed to the Longmore Home for Incurables, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh; that the treatment allowance drawn by his wife was stopped on the 20th April, 1921, without any explanation; the reason for this step; and if this woman will have the treatment allowance restored to her with arrears?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe service disability for which this man had received pension was rheumatism, and he was for some time under treatment in Bellahouston Hospital for that complaint. He 329W was then found to be suffering from disease of the cerebro-spinal system and was removed to the Longmore Home for Incurables. The treatment allowances have been stopped because there is no present disability from rheumatism, and because the organic nervous disease from which he now suffers has been found to be neither due to nor aggravated by service. An appeal to the Pensions Appeal Tribunal is in course of preparation, and I will see that it is expedited.