Mrs. Middleton asked the Assistant Postmaster-General whether he will re-introduce a system of priority telephone calls for members of the medical profession similar to that which operated formerly under the National Telephone Company, in order to obviate the long delays in securing hospital beds for patients and in making other calls upon which the health, and sometimes the lives, of patients may depend.
§ Mr. Burke:When a member of the medical profession has to make a vitally urgent call, the operator will give the call priority if the urgency is explained at the time.