§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Minister of Health whether his attention has been called to the resolution passed by the Plymouth Insurance Committee, requesting that the Government be urged to make provision enabling and requiring local authorities dealing with the treatment of tuberculosis, or groups of these, to formulate schemes for village settlements where suitable ex-sanatorium patients and their families may be housed and appropriate remunerative employment provided under medical supervision on the lines adopted at the Cambridgeshire tuberculosis colony at Papworth Hall; and what is the policy of his Department with regard to this matter?
§ Sir K. WOODThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the second part of the question, there are three village settlements in existence and a fourth is under consideration. My right hon. Friend's view is that fuller experience of the results in these cases must be awaited before attempting such widespread and costly developments as are suggested in the question.