HC Deb 02 October 1941 vol 374 c699
23. Sir F. Fremantle

asked the Minister of Health when the annual reports of his Department and of his principal medical officer for 1939–41 will be issued?

Mr. E. Brown

I hope that the summarised report to which I referred in reply to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies) on 3rd July last will be ready within the next two months. In accordance with the general decision to suspend the issue of Departmental reports not immediately essential to the war effort, the regular series of reports of the Department and of the chief medical officer will be suspended till after the war.

Sir F. Fremantle

Will the main figures of the principal medical officer be put in the report, so that they can be compared with the previous year's figures by the large number of people concerned?

Mr. Brown

I will do my best.