§ 36. Captain ORMSBY-GOREasked the Minister of Health, whether he has received proposals from Sir Robert Jones, K.B.E., and Dr. G. R. Girdlestone, of Oxford, for the establishment under the Ministry of Health of open-air country orthopædic hospitals for children suffering from rickets, infantile paralysis, and surgical tuberculosis on the model of the Baschurch and Stoke centres for crippled children; and what steps he is taking in the matter?
§ The MINISTER of HEALTH (Dr. Addison)I am acquainted with the very interesting scheme referred to in the question, which has been under consideration at the Ministry. It deals with one (a very important one) of those special institutional services the development of which is greatly needed and which are now under the direct consideration of the Consultative Councils whom I have asked to advise as to a scheme of medical and allied services generally.