§ Sir W. Jenkinsasked the Minister of Health whether he has considered the report of the Commissioners on Tuberculosis in Wales; whether he is going to take immediate steps to deal with the urgent question of malnutrition, particularly among women and children; and will he take steps to give added financial aid to distressed and Special Areas so that feeding can be carried out extensively in cur elementary, junior, and infants 630W schools, in order to reduce the excessive loss of life and the great suffering among the people generally?
§ Mr. ElliotI would refer the hon. Member to the answer I have to-day given to the hon. Member for Fulham, West (Dr. Summerskill).
§ Sir W. Jenkinsasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether, in view of the report of the Commissioners on Tuberculosis in Wales, he will have an immediate survey made in all the schools of Wales by his medical advisers to ascertain what additional measures should be taken to ensure that all children are properly fed?
Mr. LindsayThe adequacy of the provision of free meals and milk in all areas in Wales is already being reviewed by the Board of Education and letters recommending improvements in the arrangements have been sent to a considerable proportion of the local education authorities. Visits to several areas have been or will be made by the Board's medical officers, at which the nutrition of children in typical schools is surveyed. The responsibility for surveying the schools as a whole rests, however, with the local education authorities and their medical officers, and it is the duty of my Department to co-ordinate as far as possible the standards used in the assessment of nutrition and to supervise and stimulate the activities of the authorities rather than to replace them.