§ 55. Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSONasked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East, as representing the Insurance Commissioners, whether he is aware that insured persons, members of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union Approved Society, were certified as suffering from tuberculosis and were passed for sanatorium treatment twenty-six weeks ago and have not yet received the treatment; whether he is aware that other members of this approved society have waited from ten to twenty weeks without getting admission to a sanatorium; and whether any effort is being made to provide the necessary accommodation?
Mr. BENNI am informed that of the eight applicants for sanatorium benefit to which it appears that my hon. Friend refers, one has already received treatment in a residential institution but was discharged for breach of the rules, one is not in a suitable condition for this form of treatment, but will be sent to a hospital as soon as a bed is available, and the remaining six are being sent to a sanatorium at once.