§ 34. Sir Robert Rankinasked the Minister of Health whether the plan of his Ministry whereby Civil Defence workers and members of the Merchant Navy who are suffering deafness as a result of war injuries are now provided with aids to hearing or taught lip-reading in the same way as patients from the Services, is now in operation in the Liverpool area?
§ The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)Yes, Sir. The facilities referred to by my hon. Friend were arranged some months ago and are available to the Liverpool area as well as to the rest of the country.