HC Deb 07 November 1912 vol 43 cc1449-50W
Mr. BARNES

asked the Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that Jews, as well as Catholics, are being sent by the Glasgow Burgh Insurance Committee for treatment to Quarriers Consumptives Home, at Bridge of Weir, Solomon Gold, of 78, Norfolk Street, Glasgow, a Jew, having been sent there; is he aware that Jews, as well as Catholics, are compelled, as a condition of treatment, to join in prayers inconsistent with their religious convictions; and if he will take early steps to carry out his recent promise to get treatment under the National Insurance Act in some other institution than the one in question, so as to protect patients against being called upon to join in religious services other than that of their own faith?

Mr. MASTERMAN

I understand from the Glasgow Insurance Committee that my hon. Friend has been misinformed. Mr. Solomon Gold has not been sent to the Bridge of Weir Sanatorium, but to another one where no such rule as that referred to is in force. The arrangements promised have been made and no appli- cants who are known to be Jews or Catholics are sent to the sanatorium mentioned.