§ Captain Kerbyasked the Minister of Health if he has yet received from the Worthing Hospital Management Committee, as the employing authority, any information as to what action is being taken against employees of the hospital as a result of the report of the committee of inquiry, appointed at his request, by the South-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, to look into the burial arrangements at Southlands Hospital, Shoreham by Sea, and the methods by which an undertaker was selected; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. VosperI am informed that, as recommended by the Committee of4W and the amount allocated by the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board for the same years to the hospitals in the City of Stoke-on-Trent.
§ Mr. VosperFollowing are the figures in terms of annual expenditure:
Inquiry, the Management Committee has severely censured the officer primarily concerned and has conveyed the findings of the inquiry to a second officer by way of warning.