§ 23. Brigadier Prior-Palmerasked the Minister of Health whether he has yet received the reports from the hospital authorities on visiting in children's wards.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodYes, Sir. The reports show that of the 1,300 hospitals admitting children, all except 70 fever hospitals and 75 others allow regular visiting. Three hundred allow visits to take place daily, and the great majority of the remainder allow visits more than once a week.
§ Brigadier Prior-PalmerIn that case, would my right hon. Friend circulate to those hospitals which do not permit daily visiting the evidence from those which do, with a strong recommendation that they should look into this matter and endeavour to adopt the system of daily visiting?
§ Mr. MacleodI should be very happy to consider this and I am grateful to my hon. and gallant Friend for raising the matter because the inquiry—the result of which I have announced to the House—stems from an Adjournment debate which he initiated, I think, in March.