§ Dr. SPEROasked the Minister of Health if he is aware of the fact that, owing to advertisements issued by unskilled, untrained, and unqualified people practising medicine and surgery claiming special knowledge and ability to relieve and cure such dreaded diseases as cancer, etc., many lives have been seriously endangered, and in some instances lost; and whether he is prepared to take immediate steps to prohibit them from advertising in any shape or form?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSMy attention has been called to a recent case, where it appears that a patient may have been misled by an advertisement, but no information is available as to the extent of the evil to which the hon. Member refers, and I doubt whether legislation to prohibit unqualified medical practice would be regarded as uncontroversial.