HC Deb 29 July 1937 vol 326 cc3302-3
59. Mr. Mander

asked the Minister of Health whether he will have inquiries made into the position of a worker who has been instructed by the local medical officer of health not to go to work owing to the presence of diphtheria or some other infectious disease in the house, with a view to ascertaining what benefit under such circumstances is available to him?

Sir K. Wood

I am sending the hon. Member a full statement on the subject which it is not possible to deal with within the limits of an oral reply.

Mr. Mander

Is it desirable or proper that a man who has been instructed by a medical officer not to go to work because of infection in the house, should stand in a queue outside an Employment Exchange?

Sir K. Wood

I should not like to answer a question of that kind. I would invite the hon. Member during the Recess to consider the long statement which I propose to send him. On his return he may like to put another question.