§ 47. Mr. LYNCHasked the Prime Minister whether he will proceed to the establishment of a Ministry of Health which shall deal not only with such questions as child welfare and the amelioration of various forms of administrative work referring to medical matters but will be conceived as arising from the idea that a great proportion of the maladies of humanity are preventible, and that prevention is aided by bold and well-adjusted sanitary plans and by the popularisation as, for instance, by definite instruction in schools of some clear ideas respecting the microbial origin of diseases and the manner in which these diseases are acquired; and that, in addition, the Ministry of Health should have the power to develop far beyond anything hitherto considered research work and technical instruction, with the definite objective of eventually eliminating certain diseases of which tuberculosis may be taken as a type?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI cannot add anything to the previous replies which have been made on this subject.
§ Mr. LYNCHMay I remind the right hon. Gentleman that the previous reply in no way touched this matter. Why is there a prejudice against brain power?