§ 20. Captain Marplesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the increase of tuberculosis in this country and the difficulty of treating these patients effectively, he will consider approaching the Swiss Government to ascertain if it would be possible for Britain to take over, on account of reparations from Germany, the Deutsche Heilstatte at Wolfgang and the Deutsches Krieser Kurhaus at Davos Dorf, which were two tuberculosis sanatoria owned by the German Government.
§ Mr. BevinThe question of possible arrangements for the treatment in Switzerland of a certain number of tuberculosis cases is already under consideration by my right hon. Friends the Minister of Health and the Minister of Pensions as a result of a generous offer to this end recently made to the Minister of Health through the Swiss Minister. The suggestions which the hon. and gallant Member makes in the same sense would require careful consideration from many points of view, and I am not at present in a position to give a reply concerning them.
§ Captain MarplesIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that at the present moment a considerable number of Nazis are being treated in the two sanatoria I have mentioned, and does he not consider it more desirable that T.B. subjects of this country should be treated?