§ Mr. T. Smithasked the Minister of Health whether he will give figures bringing up to date the table on municipal and voluntary hospitals contained in the 1933 Report on the state of the public health?
§ Mr. BernaysI would refer to the reply which I made to a similar question by my hon. Friend the Member for Moss Side (Mr. R. Duckworth) on the 2nd instant, of which I am sending him a copy. I will let the hon. Member have such information as is available.
Days per week on which meals are provided. Number of Local Education Authorities. Counties. Non-County Boroughs. Urban Districts. County Boroughs. 7 days and holidays … … … — 4 1 7 6 days and holidays … … … — 11 6 23 6 days excluding holidays … … … 2 — — — 5 days and holidays … … … 5 26 7 31 5 days excluding holidays … … … 29 66 6 19 Miscellaneous cases* … … … 1 3 1 — * These include— One county which provides milk on five days a week during term time only. Dinners five days a week (one district six days a week) during term time and holidays.
One borough which provides ordinary meals on five or seven days a week, according to the feeding centre, during term time and holidays.
One borough which provides milk only on five days a week during term time and six days a week during holidays.
One borough which provides ordinary meals on five days a week during term time and approximately half the major holidays and milk during term time and holidays on seven days a week.
One urban district which provides milk on five days a week during term time only and ordinary meals during term time and holidays except during two weeks of the summer holiday.