§ Mr. MILLSasked the Minister of Health the number of applications during the past 12 months for sanatorium treatment, the number of people admitted to such treatment, and the average waiting time between applications for treatment and treatment itself; and whether he can report any check in the growth of tuberculosis?
§ Sir A. MONDThe returns made to my Department by the local authorities do not provide the precise information asked for in the first three parts of the question, but I am sending the hon. Member particulars of the numbers of persons receiving and awaiting treatment, respectively, in residential institutions from local authorities in England on the first day of each month from the 1st June last. As regards the last part of the question, the numbers of notifications of, and deaths from, tuberculosis in 1919 and 1920 in England and Wales were considerably less than in any previous year. I am sending the hon. Member particulars of the annual notifications of, and deaths from, this disease.