§ 83. Wing-Commander Hulbertasked the Secretary of State for War the conditions under which soldiers under the age of 19 years are, after a short period of training, posted for duties as orderlies in mental hospitals.
§ Mr. LawsonSoldiers are only posted for training as mental nursing orderlies after careful selection from those who have expressed their willingness to undertake this type of work and normally after the completion of their usual four months basic training. They are not actually posted for duty as mental nursing orderlies until they have successfully completed a further special course of training of at least three months under the supervision of experienced psychiatrists; they must then be accepted as suitable by the Officer Commanding the hospital to which they are182W posted. This process may on occasions be completed before the man is 19, but with the present shortage of manpower this is unavoidable.