HC Deb 20 January 1942 vol 377 cc218-9W
Sir E. Graham-Little

asked the Minister of Health whether he will indicate the date, and the terms of the instruction, upon which the hospitals under his control have adopted national wheatmeal bread; and whether, before issuing this instruction, he ascertained that the loaf, the consumption of which at the hospitals is thus enforced, is prepared in accordance with the directions stipulated by the Medical Research Council?

Mr. E. Brown

No instructions have been given in this matter by my Department to any hospital, but certain recommendations were made to local authorities and to voluntary hospitals in the Emergency Hospital Scheme, in Circular 2407, mentioned by my hon. Friend in his Question of the 19th December. No independent analysis of the bread to be supplied to such hospitals was made by my Department.

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