§ 20 and 21. Mr. Oswaldasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1)if he will arrange to increase the number of mobile units for mass radiography from 10 to 27 to enable the City of Edinburgh's health authorities to have a shorter and more intensive campaign against tuberculosis;
(21 if he will consider the representations made to him by the Corporation of Edinburgh to transfer the date for the opening of the campaign against tuberculosis from February, 1958, to a period of less cold weather and longer daylight.
§ 24. Mr. Willisasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what reply he has given to the representations made to him by letter on 19th July by the Edinburgh Town Council Health Committee concerning the national campaign against tuberculosis.
§ Mr. MaclayI am considering the arrangements for the Edinburgh mass radiography campaign in the light of the representations made to me by the Corporation, and I will write to the hon. Members and to the Corporation as soon as possible.
§ Mr. OswaldWill not the Secretary of State consider this campaign as being of the utmost importance because of the desire of the Edinburgh Corporation to make all the arrangements it can as soon as possible, and in view of the fact that 1048 it has already written to his own Department at St. Andrew's House, surely this is an unwarranted delay?
§ Mr. MaclayI am taking every possible step to get on with this campaign as fast as I can. The difficulty arose because the original concept of how this could best be done has proved to be not necessarily ideal, and we have been trying to improve the method.