§ 54. Mr. G. Straussasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been drawn to the recent death of a two-and-a-half years old child in Bath during an operation as a result of the use of a badly marked nitrous oxide anaesthesia cylinder; and whether he will take steps to see that such cylinders are identifiable 2530 by coloured bands in a prominent place instead of paper labels as at present.
§ Mr. WillinkYes, Sir. The British Standards Institution have appointed a committee to consider what measures can be adopted to distinguish more readily than at present between the various medical gas cylinders used in connexion with the administration of anaesthetics, for the purpose of avoiding the repetition of such a tragedy. My Department is represented on this committee.