§ Mr. Viantasked the Minister of National Insurance what claims for compensation have been made by the nurses who contracted smallpox at Glasgow in consequence of the wrong diagnosis of a case of that disease at a fever hospital and by the dependants of the three nurses and the laundry-maid who died in that outbreak; and whether such claims have been determined by the appropriate court or independent statutory authorities concerned.
§ Dr. SummerskillI am, of course, only concerned with claims under the National Insurance Acts. Injury benefit has been claimed and awarded in eight cases. There have also been four claims for death benefit about which I am writing to my hon. Friend.