§ 36. Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the Minister of Health of he is aware that the Staffordshire Public Assistance Committee has recently issued instructions that patients in the Aldridge urban district area shall be accommodated at Hallam Hospital, West Bromwich, instead of at Manor Hospital, Walsall, as heretofore; whether he is responsible for this decision and, if so, on what grounds was this decision made; if he is aware that this decision causes inconvenience and hardships to the poor of the district; and if he has received any protests on the matter?
§ Mr. SHAKESPEAREThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative, and to the second part in the negative. As regards the last two parts, my right hon. Friend has received a protest from the urban district council, and is in communication on the matter with the county council with whom the responsibility in the matter rests.