§ Mr. Grovesasked the Secretary of State for War whether all recruits for Army service open to women are being medically examined by women doctors; and, if not, whether he will at once adopt such a procedure?
§ Mr. EdenThe instructions are that recruits for the Auxiliary Territorial Service will be medically examined by medical officers, or, where this is impracticable, by civilian medical practitioners (if possible, women). I am informed that, in practice, the great majority of these recruits are examined by women doctors, but I cannot undertake that this should be so in every case.