Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaiteasked the Home Secretary whether persons volunteering for duty as air-raid wardens are subjected to a medical examination before acceptance, observing that the widow of the late Herbert Pinder, air-raid warden, of Skeffling, Yorkshire, has been refused a pension on the grounds that her husband's death at his post was due to heart failure caused by the explosion of enemy bombs?
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§ Mr. H. MorrisonIt has not been considered practicable to require volunteers for the wardens' service to submit to medical examination, nor has experience shown that any general rule of this nature is necessary. I have no information with[...]egard to the particular case mentioned which would appear to be a matter for the consideration of my hon. Friend the Minister of Pensions.