§ 48. Mr. Awberyasked the Minister of Health what steps are being taken to make effective use of our hospital nurses by transferring the domestic duties, now carried out by them to domestic staff.
§ Miss Hornsby-SmithHospital authorities are well aware of the desirability of relegating domestic duties to domestic
4Wpital beds, excluding mental and teaching hospitals, and the average weekly cost, per convalescent patient, for each region, separately.
§ Mr. Iain MacleodThe reply is as follows:
staff, and nurses are not now employed on such duties to anything like the extent that they formerly were.