HC Deb 21 April 1947 vol 436 cc76-8W
Mr. J. L. Williams

asked the Minister of National Insurance how many have applied in the City of Glasgow for extended unemployment benefit; and how many of such claims have been allowed, giving separate figures for men and women in each case.

Mr. Steele

The information asked for is set out in the following table. The numbers in each case show the position on 11th April. The applications received but not admitted include some still under consideration at that date.

placed in isolation; and if he will make a statement on the subject.

Mr. P. Noel-Baker

No, Sir. The medical authorities report that all airmen at the R.A.F. Station, Yatesbury, who fell ill of scarlet fever or meningitis in the recent outbreaks were immediately admitted to hospital and were not sent back to their quarters.

Mr. Hollis

asked the Secretary of State for Air if he is aware that during the recent epidemic of scarlet fever at the R.A.F. Station, Yatesbury, a non-commissioned officer in quarantine for this disease was given a blood test and permitted to proceed on Easter leave, while other occupants of the same hut were given no such test but confined to camp; and why steps were not taken to treat all airmen concerned in the same way.

Mr. P. Noel-Baker

I am aware that this non-commissioned officer at the R.A.F. Station, Yatesbury, was given a skin test for scarlet fever and allowed to go on leave. He was not segregated at the time since he had not been in contact with the disease, and I am advised that there was strictly no need for him to have been given the test. The airmen the hon. Member has in mind had all been in contact with scarlet fever cases; they were quartered in the same hut as the N.C.O., but in a separate room. There was no Deed for them to be given skin tests but they had to remain on the station under observation.