[209] There was no reference but that one.

[210] Report and Appendices of the Committee appointed to inquire into Post Office Wages, 1904.

[211] September 17, 1904.

[212] September 12, 1904.

[213] Report of the Bradford Committee on Post Office Wages, 1904, p. 198.

Dr. A. H. Wilson, Chief Medical Officer of the Post Office, testified: “When cases of breakdown have been brought to my notice I have invariably found the primary origin of the illness to have been due to causes outside Post Office life. These causes are generally drink, financial worry, domestic troubles, etc.”

[214] Compare Chapter XI, testimony of Mr. Kerry.

[215] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, April 27, 1900, pp. 229 and 136; Mr. R. W. Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

[216] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, May 11, p. 342; Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster General.

[217] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, April 20, 1903, p. 1,022; Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Postmaster General.