§ Mr. ASTORasked the President of the Local Government Board whether any local authorities are providing for the free examination of sputum; and, if so, whether he will give their names?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELProvision for the free examination of sputum is made in the tuberculosis schemes of forty-two county councils and sixty-six county borough councils. The names of these authorities are:—
County Councils.—Bedford, Berkshire, Buckingham, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derby, Devon, Dorset, Durham, 375W Ely (Isle of), Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon, Kent, Lancashire, Leicester, Lincoln (parts of Holland, Kesteven, Lindsey), Middlesex, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottingham, Peterborough (Soke of), Salop, Somerset, Southampton, Stafford, Suffolk East, Suffolk West, Surrey, Sussex East, Sussex West, Warwick, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcester, Yorkshire (East Hiding, West Riding).
County Borough Councils.—Barnsley, Bath, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Bootle, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Burnley, Burton-on-Trent, Bury, Carlisle, Chester, Coventry, Croydon, Derby, Dews-bury, Dudley, Eastbourne, Gloucester, Halifax, Hastings, Huddersfield, Ipswich, Kingston-on-Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oldham, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston, Reading, Rochdale, Rotherham, St. Helens, Salford, Sheffield, Smethwick, Southampton, Southend-on-Sea, Southport, South Shields, Stockport, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Tynemouth, Wallasey, Warrington, West Bromwich, West Ham, Wigan, Wolverhampton, Worcester, York.