§ Mr. Granvilleasked the Minister of Pensions if he will reconsider the case of Mrs. D. Philpot, of 61, Stowuplancl Road, Stowmarket, in view of the fact that it has now been established that her husband died from a bacterial infection, and not as a result of nervous hysteria, which was the basis on which the granting of a pension was refused.
§ Mr. MarquandI have given most careful consideration to this claim. My principal medical advisers assure me, however, that they are satisfied, in the light of the findings of the post-mortem examination, that the enteritis which was the cause of Mr. Philpot's death was of recent bacterial origin, and that there was no evidence of old-standing infection such as might have been contracted during his service in the 1914–18 war In the circumstances I regret that I am unable to award Mrs. Philpot a widow's pension.