HC Deb 22 January 1953 vol 510 cc388-9
11. Mr. G. Thomas

asked 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 Macleod

The numbers were 456 and 491 respectively.

Mr. Thomas

Is 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. Macleod

I 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.

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