§ Mr. Kirbyasked the Minister of Health whether he has considered representations from the town clerk of Liverpool, on behalf of the Liverpool City Council, urging a revision of the rules of the General Nursing Council to enable nurses to take their final examinations in children's diseases and fevers at the ages of 20 and 19, respectively; and whether, in view of the serious shortage of student nurses in children's and infectious hospitals, he will take steps to lower the age by one year, if only as a war-time measure, so that students may take their final examinations in children's diseases and fevers one year earlier than now laid down?
Mr. BrownI have received the representations referred to from the town clerk of Liverpool and I am asking for the observations of the General Nursing Council.