§ Mr. LEACHasked the President of the Local Government Board if he would take steps to urge all public authorities under the direction of his Department to provide sanatoria for the benefit of those people who are too poor to pay the fees at existing private establishments?
§ Mr. BURNSArrangements for the treatment of the sick have already been made by Boards of Guardians by the provision of separate institutions or sick wards; and in suitable cases I am urging 851W the combination of such bodies for the provision of special institutions, where these are required. Sanitary authorities have also provided about 700 hospitals, with approximately 20,000 beds, mostly for the isolation of cases of infectious disease.