§ Rear-Admiral Beamishasked the Minister of Labour what steps are taken to bring to the notice of the medical boards before whom conscripts and others appear, the report of the conference convened in July last, to consider and advise on nervous instability which may become manifest in war and which has described shell-shock as a costly misnomer?
§ Mr. AsshetonThe instructions issued for the guidance of medical boards engaged in examining recruits for the Armed Forces, with regard to the estimation of nervous stability in determining a man's appropriate grading, already follow the main recommendations of the conference to which the hon. and gallant Member refers. The question whether any further instructions are necessary is under consideration.