§ Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the total establishment of naval medical officers and the shortage of regular medical officers on the establishment in each year since the War?
§ Mr. AMMONConsequent on the continuation of the employment of temporary medical officers who had served during the War and the transfer to the permanent list of a certain number of such officers, no shortage of naval medical officers was experienced up to and including 1922. The shortages in subsequent years as compared with requirements, which include provision for officers undergoing courses, have been as follow:
Year. Requirements. Shortage. 1923 … … 416 24 1924 … … 395 2 1925 … … 397 7 1926 … … 392 2 1927 … … 402 21 1928 … … 402 12 1929 … … 396 24 1930 … … 399 44