§ Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSONasked the Minister of Health whether, in view of the treatment urgently required for ex-military and other local tubercular patients, the London County Council are desirous of taking over the completely equipped wards in the ground at the back of the 3rd London General Hospital on their vacation by the military authorities at the end of July; whether the London County Council are prevented from doing so by provisions of the Defence of the Realm Act, under which it is obligatory that these huts will then be dismantled and broken up; whether the erection of similar wards elsewhere will cost a sum of not less than £150,000; and what action he proposes to take?
§ Dr. ADDISONI appreciate very fully the importance of preserving these buildings for the treatment of the civilian population, and I am in communication with the London County Council on the subject.