HC Deb 23 November 1926 vol 200 c209
42. Colonel DAY

asked the Minister of Health what action has been taken by the Walsingham, Norfolk, Board of Guardians, following the visit of Inspector Bushell, to segregate children from mental defectives?

The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of HEALTH (Sir Kingsley Wood)

All children over three years of age have now been removed from this institution; the only mentally deficient persons associating with the children in the institution are the mothers of those children.

Colonel DAY

Is it not a fact that the inspector stated that some of the children had to sleep with mental defectives?

Sir K. WOOD

I do not know, but the hon. Gentleman will see the steps that have already been taken.

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