§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Education if she will investigate the circumstances in which schoolchildren at Liskeard and Bodmin are transported by omnibus to Truro to a hospital 45 miles away for the removal of tonsils and adenoids, although there is a hospital with competent specialists on the staff in their home town and a large centre hospital in Plymouth 16 miles away; and if she will stop this practice.
§ Miss WilkinsonThe Cornwall local education authority have, with my approval, limited their arrangements for the operative treatment of adenoids and chronic tonsilitis to hospitals which have specialist ear, nose and throat departments. According to my information, there are no such departments in the hospitals at Bodmin and Liskeard. Children from these towns who need operative treatment are accordingly sent to Truro or, when beds are available for them, to the Prince of Wales' Hospital at Plymouth.