§ 61. Mr. J. Hudsonasked the Minister of Health if he will insist that provision of alcoholic beverages to patients in hospital shall not be allowed except under doctors' prescriptions; and whether he will state the total amount now spent on alcoholic beverages in hospitals.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodIt is the practice to advise hospital authorities that alcoholic beverages should be supplied to hospital patients as part of their diet only on doctors' orders. Their cost is not recorded separately, but I have no reason to think that they are being supplied extravagantly.