§ Mr. GEORGE JONESasked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to a report by the medical adviser to the insurance committee for the county of London, in which it is stated that, of insured persons in the county of London recommended for sanatorium benefit during 1914, over 70 per cent. died before the expiration of 1918, and that lack of financial means on the part of such insured person was largely responsible for this deplorable result; and whether he is pre- pared to take any, and what, steps to provide or suggest a remedy for such a state of affairs in the future?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The question whether further provision should be made out of public funds, apart from the Poor Law, to supplement the financial assistance already provided in such cases under the National Health Insurance Acts, is one which must, I think, merge in the large economic questions governing the provision of public assistance in cases of disease accompanied by indigence.