HC Deb 03 July 1947 vol 439 cc1477-8
5. Mr. Janner

asked the Minister of Health the number of children suffering from malnutrition diseases in 1939, 1943 and 1946, respectively.

Mr. Bevan

No precise statistics are available of the total number of children suffering from diseases due to malnutrition. The proportion of school children examined whose nutritional state was classified as bad was 0.5 per cent. in 1939 and 0.3 per cent. in both 1943 and 1945. The figures for 1946 are not available.