§ 52. Mr. HAYDN JONESasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners, how many men and boys, insured and uninsured, respectively, and how many women and girls, insured and uninsured, respectively, in Wales and Monmouthshire were examined during 1916 by the tuberculosis experts of the Welsh National Memorial Association, in conjunction with and on behalf of Welsh county and county borough councils and insurance committees; how many of these, respectively, were found or suspected to be suffering from tuberculosis; what was the total number of persons, both insured and uninsured, suffering from tuberculosis in Wales and Monmouthshire who received institutional treatment during 1916 by the Welsh National Memorial Association, in conjunction with and on behalf of Welsh county and county borough councils and insurance committees; and how many insured persons, suffering from tuberculosis in Wales and Monmouthshire, entitled to sanatorium benefit and recommended by insurance committees for institutional treatment in sanatoria, are now on the waiting lists awaiting admission?
§ Sir EDWIN CORNWALL (Comptroller of the Household)The total number of persons examined by the tuberculosis physicians in Wales and Monmouthshire in 1916 was 10,329; the number found to be suffering from tuberculosis was 4,679; the number suspected and kept under observation was 1,635; tile number who received 1849 institutional treatment was 3,827. I am glad to be able to inform my hon. Friend that no persons in Wales and Monmouthshire suffering from tuberculosis entitled to sanatorium benefit and recommended by insurance committees for institutional treatment in sanatoria are now on the waiting list awaiting admission. I propose to publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the more detailed figures asked for by my hon. Friend. [See Written Answers.]