§ Mr. BOOTHasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners, whether he is aware of the resolution of the North Riding Insurance Committee asking the county council to make additional provision for tuberculous insured 1304W persons, so as to avoid the danger of a waiting list; and whether he will give the request his support?
§ Sir E. CORNWALLI am aware of the resolution referred to. The Insurance Committee have not actually at present a. waiting list of tuberculous insured persons requiring treatment in residential institutions. At the same time, it is clearly desirable that a comprehensive scheme for the provision of institutional treatment of tuberculosis should be undertaken as soon as practicable by the North Riding County Council, as has been done by the great majority of other councils. Representations are being made accordingly to-the Local Government Board.
§ Mr. BOOTHasked the Comptroller of the Household, as representing the National Health Insurance Commissioners, if he has received a resolution from the Middlesex Insurance Committee asking him to sanction arrangements proposed by the county council to take over liability for the treatment of tuberculosis cases in Poor Law institutions; whether he is aware that this proposal is repugnant to insured persons; and what answer he intends to make to the resolution?
§ Sir E. CORNWALLSuggestions have been made by the Insurance Committee, and, I understand, by the county council, as the public health authority, with regard to the possibility for securing the further accommodation that is so greatly needed for tuberculous persons in the county, insured and uninsured; the matter is at the moment under careful consideration, and I am not sufficiently aware of the details of the proposals to be certain whether, by making certain changes in them, a satisfactory solution might not be found possible that would be free from any undesirable characteristics such as those assumed in the question, as would, of course, be necessary before sanction could be given.