§ Sir A. Hudsonasked the Minister of Information if he will take steps to see that London newspapers and the B.B.C. do not announce after an air-raid that a hospital has been hit, as this results in every hospital in London being rung up on the telephone by friends and relatives of the patients in order to find out whether it is the one in question.
§ Mr. ThurtleI sympathise with the difficulties which arise on such occasions, but I am afraid they cannot be avoided. Censorship is and can only be concerned with matters of security and no security is involved in reports of hits on an unnamed hospital, although it would be if the hospital were named and the enemy thereby enabled to identify the exact area in which his bombs had fallen.