§ 11. Mr. G. Thomasasked the Minister of Health what number of people in Cardiff were issued with surgical shoes in 1952, and what was the comparable number in 1951.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodThe numbers were 456 and 491 respectively.
§ Mr. ThomasIs the Minister of the opinion that that fall—I gather that there is a fall of roughly 50 out of a total of fewer than 500—is due to the charges which these people now have to pay, and that they are going without the shoes?
§ Mr. MacleodI do not think that one can safely make that assumption, but I am keeping this charge, perhaps above all others, particularly under my own review.