Mr. MACLEANasked the Minister of Pensions whether ex-service patients who are undergoing indoor treatment in sanatoria for tuberculosis have to wear their own clothes while in hospital; whether ex-service men in other hospitals are supplied with clothes for hospital use; whether in these sanatoria men are expected to do certain duties, some of which render their clothes unfit for wear outside; and whether he is prepared to consider the supply of clothes to these patients while undergoing treatment in sanatoria?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONEx-service patients for whom treatment is provided in sanatoria or other civil institutions at the expense of my Department are received on the same footing as civilian patients, and I can see no good reason for differentiating between these two classes of patient as regards clothing.