§ 41. Mr. S. O. Daviesasked the Minister of Health if he will make a statement 1244 on the growth of children; whether the decline in their growth rates between 1945 and 1947 has been arrested; and whether the slowing down in 1947 and 1948 in the reduction in mortality from respiratory tuberculosis among young children has now been reversed.
§ Mr. BevanYes, Sir, the 1946–47 decline has been arrested, and since 1947 the reduction in mortality referred to has been steadily resumed.