HC Deb 08 December 1938 vol 342 cc1371-2W
Mr. Lathan

asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the recognised need for an improvement in the physique of the nation, he will take steps to increase the proportion of doctors by permission for a greater number of refugee doctors from Germany and Austria to reside and practise in this country?

Mr. Lloyd

My right hon. Friend knows of no grounds for the suggestion that efforts to improve the physique of the nation are hampered by a shortage of doctors or that the admission of a further number of refugee doctors from Germany and Austria to practise in this country without regard to the special part they might be expected to play in the work of the national fitness movement would achieve the object the hon. Member has in mind.