§ Colonel ENGLANDasked the Minister of Pensions the number of ex-service men who have died from the effects of gas poisoning, and whose disability has been recognised by his Department as being attributable to, or aggravated by, war service during each of the last 10 years; how many new claims in respect of applications for pensions for disabilities attributable to gas poisoning have been made within each of the last five years; and how many of them have been approved?
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§ Mr. F. O. ROBERTSThe particulars required by the hon. and gallant Member could not be given with any degree of completeness, since the effects of gas poisoning would ordinarily appear in the form of specific disabilities of the respiratory organs, and any claim submitted in consequence would be recorded under these disabilities.