HC Deb 20 October 1954 vol 531 c185W
128. Mr. Hastings

asked the Minister of Defence what percentage of recruits developed tuberculosis of the lung while undertaking National Service in the Armed Forces in 1952 and 1953.

Mr. H. Macmillan

In each of the years 1952 and 1953 about one recruit in 1,000 was found to have developed tuberculosis of the lung during his period of National Service in the Armed Forces.