§ Mr. HIGHAMasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state the titles or names and addresses of the residential institutions in which tuberculous cases can be treated or are now being treated, distinguishing between the sanatorium, the farm colony, and the open-air school?
§ Mr. MASTERMANAs regards England, I give below a list of residential institutions in which tuberculous patients can be and are being treated; the list has been compiled from information furnished to the Local Government Board by medical officers of health of sanitary authorities throughout the country, in response to a circular issued by that Board in December last, supplemented by information obtained from the list published in November, 1911, by the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption. There are, of course, various general hospitals in the country which sometimes take tuberculous patients; I have not included these, nor any institutions maintained by boards of guardians.
541WAs regards Scotland, I give below a list furnished by the Local Government Board for Scotland to the National Health Insurance Commission (Scotland), showing institutions in various parts of Scotland available for the treatment of tuberculosis.
As regards Ireland and Wales, lists will, I understand, be issued by the respective Commissions in a few days.