§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE(by Private Notice) asked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that the National Hospital for the Paralytic and Epileptic, the principal school for the study of nervous diseases, has had to close its doors owing to want of funds, and, in view of the urgent public need of keeping the hospital open, and the serious loss to medical science involved, can he now make his promised statement with regard to Government assistance to hospitals?
§ Dr. ADDISONI am not yet in a position to make any general statement, but, in the meantime, I understand that the King Edward Hospital Fund are prepared to consider the application from this hospital for an immediate emergency grant which reached them this morning, no previous intimation having been given to the Fund that there was any intention of closing the hospital.
§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEIs my right hon. Friend aware that I myself put to him a question on similar lines, and I informed him that the hospital would have to be closed if a grant were not forthcoming, and that was at least three weeks ago?