§ 37. Miss Hornsby-Smithasked the Minister of Health when the non-priority waiting list for deaf aids was closed at King's College Hospital; when it is likely to be reopened and the estimated number of patients certified by their local hospitals as requiring a deaf aid who are waiting to go on this list and be fitted by King's College Hospital.
§ Mr. BevanThe answer to the first part of the Question is, May, 1949, and to the last, 2,110. I am informed that from next month the waiting list system 519 is to be re-organised so as to ensure that a fair proportion of patients from each local hospital concerned are fitted each month.