§ 132. Mr. Rhys Daviesasked the Minister without Portfolio when it is intended to publish a report on the health of the fighting services during the last war.
§ Mr. BellengerI have been asked to reply. The health of the three Services will be fully dealt with in the Medical Sections of the Official History of the War, but it will be some considerable time before this appears. As my hon. Friend was informed on 23rd July a report on Army health statistics for the years 1943–1945 is being prepared and will I hope appear shortly, but I cannot give a definite date. Records for the earlier years of the war are, largely as a result of enemy action, too incomplete for publication in this form. The annual health reports for the Royal Air Force for 1940 and 1941 are being printed, that for 1942 is nearly complete and those for 1943, 1944 and 1945 will be ready for printing next summer.